School Choice

Arbeitspapier

School districts in the US and around the world are increasingly moving away from traditional neighborhood school assignment, in which pupils attend closest schools to their homes. Instead, they allow families to choose from schools within district boundaries. This creates a market with parental demand over publicly-supplied school seats. More frequently than ever, this market for school seats is cleared via market design solutions grounded in recent advances in matching and mechanism design theory. The literature on school choice is reviewed with emphasis placed on the trade-offs among policy objectives and best practices in the design of admissions processes. It is concluded with a brief discussion about how data generated by assignment algorithms can be used to answer contemporary empirical questions about school effectiveness and policy interventions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2022:4

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory ; Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General ; State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions ; Analysis of Education ; Education: Government Policy
• Subject: school choice ; market design ; policy evaluation ; survey article

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Abdulkadiroglu, Atila ; Andersson, Tommy
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
• (where): Lund
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/260343
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET