School Choice
(2023) 6. p.135-185- Abstract
- 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... (More)
- 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. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/30364027-d9ee-4963-bd8e-c2f3529161cd
- author
- Abdulkadiroglu, Atila and Andersson, Tommy LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-01-03
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Handbook of the Economics of Education
- editor
- Hanushek, Eric ; Woessmann, Ludger and Machin, Stephen
- volume
- 6
- edition
- 1
- pages
- 135 - 185
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85146003148
- ISBN
- 9780323992404
- DOI
- 10.1016/bs.hesedu.2022.11.001
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 30364027-d9ee-4963-bd8e-c2f3529161cd
- date added to LUP
- 2023-01-09 14:50:41
- date last changed
- 2023-02-17 09:20:33
@inbook{30364027-d9ee-4963-bd8e-c2f3529161cd,
abstract = {{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.}},
author = {{Abdulkadiroglu, Atila and Andersson, Tommy}},
booktitle = {{Handbook of the Economics of Education}},
editor = {{Hanushek, Eric and Woessmann, Ludger and Machin, Stephen}},
isbn = {{9780323992404}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{01}},
pages = {{135--185}},
publisher = {{Elsevier}},
title = {{School Choice}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.hesedu.2022.11.001}},
doi = {{10.1016/bs.hesedu.2022.11.001}},
volume = {{6}},
year = {{2023}},
}