Tommy Andersson
Professor
Beyond Truth-telling: A Replication Study on School Choice
Author
Summary, in English
In a recent paper, Fack et al. (2019, American Economic Review) convincingly argue and theoretically demonstrate that there may be strong incentives for students to play non-truth-telling strategies when reporting preferences over schools, even when the celebrated deferred acceptance algorithm is employed. Their statistical test also rejects the (weak) truth-telling assumption in favour of another assumption, called stability, using a single data set on school choice in Paris. This paper uses Swedish school choice data and replicates their empirical finding in 52 of the 58 investigated data sets (P-value threshold 0.05).
Department/s
- Department of Economics
Publishing year
2024
Language
English
Pages
1-13
Publication/Series
Working Papers
Issue
2024:1
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Document type
Working paper
Topic
- Economics
Keywords
- school choice
- deferred acceptance algorithm
- truth-telling
- stability
- replication study
- D12
- D82
- I23
Status
Published