Revealed Preference Analysis of School Choice Models
Preferences for schools are important determinants of equitable access to high-quality education, effects of expanded choice on school improvement, and school choice mechanism design. Standard methods for estimating consumer preferences are not applicable in education markets because students do not...
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| author | Agarwal, Nikhil |
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| description | Preferences for schools are important determinants of equitable access to high-quality education, effects of expanded choice on school improvement, and school choice mechanism design. Standard methods for estimating consumer preferences are not applicable in education markets because students do not always get their first-choice school. This review describes recently developed methods for using rich data from a school choice mechanism to estimate student preferences. Our objectives are to present a unifying framework for these methods and to help applied researchers decide which techniques to use. After laying out methodological issues, we provide an overview of empirical results obtained using these models and discuss some open questions. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1303182022-10-01T16:20:08Z Revealed Preference Analysis of School Choice Models Agarwal, Nikhil Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Preferences for schools are important determinants of equitable access to high-quality education, effects of expanded choice on school improvement, and school choice mechanism design. Standard methods for estimating consumer preferences are not applicable in education markets because students do not always get their first-choice school. This review describes recently developed methods for using rich data from a school choice mechanism to estimate student preferences. Our objectives are to present a unifying framework for these methods and to help applied researchers decide which techniques to use. After laying out methodological issues, we provide an overview of empirical results obtained using these models and discuss some open questions. 2021-04-01T11:28:53Z 2021-04-01T11:28:53Z 2020-05 2021-03-29T17:51:49Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1941-1391 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130318 Agarwal, Nikhil and Paulo Somaini. “Revealed Preference Analysis of School Choice Models.” The Annual Review of Economics, 12, 1 (May 2020): 471-501 © 2020 The Author(s) en 10.1146/ANNUREV-ECONOMICS-082019-112339 The Annual Review of Economics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Annual Reviews MIT web domain |
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| title | Revealed Preference Analysis of School Choice Models |
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