• DOI:10.1257/AER.100.4.1860
Corpus ID: 7251871

Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study

@article{Calsamiglia2009ConstrainedSC,
  title={Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study},
  author={Caterina Calsamiglia and Guillaume Haeringer and F. Klijn},
  journal={The American Economic Review},
  year={2009},
  volume={100},
  pages={1860-1874}
}

Caterina Calsamiglia, Guillaume Haeringer, F. Klijn

Published 2009

Psychology, Economics

The American Economic Review

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects' incentives are drastically affected, as more individuals manipulate their preferentes. Including a safety school in the constrained list explains most manipulations. Competitiveness across schools plays an important role. Constraining… CONTINUE READING

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