Student-optimal interdistrict school choice: District-based versus school-based admissions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ehlers, Lars
• 署名单位: Universite de Montreal; Universite de Montreal
• 刊物名称: GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0899-8256
• DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2023.08.016
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 411-422
• 关键词: Interdistrict; school choice; strategy-proofness; STABILITY; (constrained) efficiency

摘要

Hafalir et al. (2022) introduce a model of interdistrict school choice. We show that any district's admission rule satisfying their assumptions is uniquely rationalized by a collection of schools' choice functions satisfying substitutability and acceptance. We then establish that all students weakly prefer the outcome of the cumulative offer process (COP) under the school-based admissions to the outcome under the district-based admissions. This has the implication that if students prefer the interdistrict outcome for the district-based admissions to the intradistrict outcome, then all students are weakly better off under the school-based admissions compared to either of these outcomes. Therefore, for student-optimal interdistrict school choice the introduction of district admission rules hurts students and it suffices to endow schools with usual choice priorities (if students' welfare is more important than districts' policy goals) and to (de)centralize district admissions by letting schools choose.(c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.