Beyond Truth-telling: A Replication Study on School Choice
(2024) In Working Papers p.1-13- Abstract
- 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).
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- Andersson, Tommy LU ; Kessel, Dany ; Lager, Nils ; Olme, Elisabet and Reese, Simon LU
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- publishing date
- 2024
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- Working paper/Preprint
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- published
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- keywords
- school choice, deferred acceptance algorithm, truth-telling, stability, replication study, D12, D82, I23
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- Working Papers
- issue
- 2024:1
- pages
- 13 pages
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- English
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- yes
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- 4255eb22-b3cd-4bbe-ba91-8c8a4512f78e
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