Lotteries in Student Assignment: An Equivalence Result

This paper formally examines two competing methods of conducting a lottery in assigning students to schools, motivated by the design of the centralized high school student assignment system in New York City. The main result of the paper is that a single and multiple lottery mechanism are equivale...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pathak, Parag, Sethuraman, Jay
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Society for Economic Theory 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61735
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864