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Tommy Andersson

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Beyond Truth-telling: A Replication Study on School Choice

Author

  • Tommy Andersson
  • Dany Kessel
  • Nils Lager
  • Elisabet Olme
  • Simon Reese

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

Document type

Working paper

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • school choice
  • deferred acceptance algorithm
  • truth-telling
  • stability
  • replication study
  • D12
  • D82
  • I23

Status

Published