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Tommy Andersson

Professor

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School Choice

Author

  • Atila Abdulkadiroglu
  • Tommy Andersson

Editor

  • Eric Hanushek
  • Ludger Woessmann
  • Stephen Machin

Summary, in English

School districts in the United States 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.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2023-01-03

Language

English

Pages

135-185

Publication/Series

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volume

6

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9780323992404