Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones
© 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. We thank Kamal Chavda, Carol Johnson, Carleton Jones, Tim Nicollette, and Jack Yessayan for their expertise and for granting permission to undertake this study. Edward L. Glaeser, Arda Gitmez, Fuhito Kojima, Yusuke Narita, Peng Shi, and sever...
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| author | Dur, Umut Kominers, Scott Duke Pathak, Parag A Sönmez, Tayfun |
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| description | © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. We thank Kamal Chavda, Carol Johnson, Carleton Jones, Tim Nicollette, and Jack Yessayan for their expertise and for granting permission to undertake this study. Edward L. Glaeser, Arda Gitmez, Fuhito Kojima, Yusuke Narita, Peng Shi, and several seminar audiences provided helpful comments. Kominers is grateful for the support of National Science Foundation grants CCF-1216095 and SES-1459912, the Harvard Milton Fund, an American Mathematical Society–Simons Foundation Travel Grant, the Ng Fund and the Mathematics in Economics Research Fund of the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Much of this work was conducted while Kominers was a research scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. Pathak and Sönmez’s work was supported by NSF grant SES-1426566. Sönmez also acknowledges the research support of Goldman Sachs Gives via Dalinc Ariburnu—Goldman Sachs Faculty Research Fund. ering the precedence of reserve seats at a school or increasing the school’s reserve size weakly increases reserve-group assignment at that school. Using data from Boston Public Schools, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Transparency about these issues—in particular, how precedence unintentionally undermined intended policy—led to the elimination of walk zone reserves in Boston’s public school match. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1349122022-03-30T14:26:26Z Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones Dur, Umut Kominers, Scott Duke Pathak, Parag A Sönmez, Tayfun © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. We thank Kamal Chavda, Carol Johnson, Carleton Jones, Tim Nicollette, and Jack Yessayan for their expertise and for granting permission to undertake this study. Edward L. Glaeser, Arda Gitmez, Fuhito Kojima, Yusuke Narita, Peng Shi, and several seminar audiences provided helpful comments. Kominers is grateful for the support of National Science Foundation grants CCF-1216095 and SES-1459912, the Harvard Milton Fund, an American Mathematical Society–Simons Foundation Travel Grant, the Ng Fund and the Mathematics in Economics Research Fund of the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Much of this work was conducted while Kominers was a research scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. Pathak and Sönmez’s work was supported by NSF grant SES-1426566. Sönmez also acknowledges the research support of Goldman Sachs Gives via Dalinc Ariburnu—Goldman Sachs Faculty Research Fund. ering the precedence of reserve seats at a school or increasing the school’s reserve size weakly increases reserve-group assignment at that school. Using data from Boston Public Schools, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Transparency about these issues—in particular, how precedence unintentionally undermined intended policy—led to the elimination of walk zone reserves in Boston’s public school match. 2021-10-27T20:09:49Z 2021-10-27T20:09:49Z 2018 2019-10-23T14:40:04Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134912 en 10.1086/699974 The Journal of Political Economy Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press |
| spellingShingle | Dur, Umut Kominers, Scott Duke Pathak, Parag A Sönmez, Tayfun Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones |
| title | Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones |
| title_full | Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones |
| title_fullStr | Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones |
| title_short | Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones |
| title_sort | reserve design unintended consequences and the demise of boston s walk zones |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134912 |
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