Several school districts use assignment systems that give students an incentive to
misrepresent their preferences. We find evidence consistent with strategic behavior in …

Maintaining a fleet of buses to transport students to school is a major expense for school
districts. To reduce costs by reusing buses between schools, many districts spread start …

Economists often estimate models using data from a particular domain, eg estimating risk
preferences in a particular subject pool or for a specific class of lotteries. Whether a model's …

This paper investigates the prediction accuracy of discrete choice models of school demand,
using a policy reform in Boston that altered where applicants can apply under school choice …

This paper develops a tractable methodology for designing an optimal priority system for
assigning agents to heterogeneous items while accounting for agents' choice behavior. The …

This paper studies the limits of school choice policies in the presence of residential
segregation. Using data from the Boston Public Schools choice system, I show that white …

In this article, we consider the collection of novel subjective data on family processes of
schooling decisions. In particular, we review recent progress on survey measurement of …

In January 2012, Boston initiated a school-assignment reform. After attending several
community meetings, I formulated the reform as an optimization problem of finding school …

In school choice, children submit a preference ranking over schools to a centralized
assignment algorithm, which takes into account schools' priorities over children and uses …

Abstract Using Boston Public School District's unique walk zone feature to better account for
unobservables, I estimate a significant positive effect of school quality on house sale prices …