Conventional value-added models (VAMs) compare average test scores across schools
after regression-adjusting for students' demographic characteristics and previous scores …

This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning school choice schemes, and how
they intertwine with equity considerations, through a literature review and analysis of the …

Matching problems with preferences are all around us: they arise when agents seek to be
allocated to one another on the basis of ranked preferences over potential outcomes …

This paper proposes a new mechanism for combinatorial assignment—for example,
assigning schedules of courses to students—based on an approximation to competitive …

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces
come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must …

We use student assignment lotteries to estimate the effect of charter school attendance on
student achievement in Boston. We also evaluate a related alternative, Boston's pilot …

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

This essay examines how repugnance sometimes constrains what transactions and markets
we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures …

A growing number of school districts use centralized assignment mechanisms to allocate
school seats in a manner that reflects student preferences and school priorities. Many of …

Each year approximately 10 million high school seniors in China compete for 6 million seats
through a centralized college admissions system. Within the last decade, many provinces …