School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by their Vulnerability to Manipulation

In Fall 2009, officials from Chicago Public Schools abandoned their assignment mechanism for coveted spots at selective college preparatory high schools midstream. After asking about 14,000 applicants to submit their preferences for schools under one mechanism, the district asked them re-submit p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pathak, Parag, Sonmez, Tayfun
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73629
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864