Improving Community Cohesion in School Choice via Correlated-Lottery Implementation

Improving Community Cohesion in School Choice via Correlated-Lottery Implementation

In school choice, children submit a preference ranking over schools to a centralized assignment algorithm, which takes into account schools’ priorities over children and uses randomization to break ties. One criticism of current school choice mechanisms is that they tend to disperse communities so children do not go to school with others from their neighborhood. We suggest to improve community ...

Valuing School Quality Via School Choice Reform

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Inconsistent behavior in lottery choice experiments.

Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery

We use data from a public school choice lottery to estimate the effect of attending a first-choice school. For the average student, attending a first-choice school is not associated with improvements in test scores or other academic outcomes. However, academic achievement is only one goal families may have when choosing a school and, depending on their preferences, parents may trade-off academi...

Nash Implementation with Lottery Mechanisms

Consider the problem of exact Nash Implementation of social choice correspondences. De…ne a lottery mechanism as a mechanism in which the planner can randomize on alternatives out of equilibrium while pure alternatives are always chosen in equilibrium. When preferences over alternatives are strict, we show that Maskin monotonicity (Maskin, 1999) is both necessary and su¢ cient for a social choi...