The Welfare Effects of Coordinated Assignment: Evidence from the New York City High School Match

Coordinated single-offer school assignment systems are a popular education reform. We show that uncoordinated offers in NYC's school assignment mechanism generated mismatches. One-third of applicants were unassigned after the main round and later administratively placed at less desirable school...

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Main Authors: Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila, Agarwal, Nikhil, Pathak, Parag
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113698
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5002-0374
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864