A comment on "School choice: An experimental study" [J. Econ. Theory 127 (1) (2006) 202-231]

Caterina Calsamiglia, Guillaume Haeringer and Flip Klijn

Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, vol. 146, issue 1, 392-396

Abstract: We show that one of the main results in Chen and Sönmez (2006, 2008) [6] and [7] does no longer hold when the number of recombinations is sufficiently increased to obtain reliable conclusions. No school choice mechanism is significantly superior in terms of efficiency.

Keywords: School; choice; Efficiency; Recombinant; estimator; Robustness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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