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Unified Enrollment in School Choice: How to Improve Student Assignment in Chicago

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  • Battal Dogan
  • Bumin Yenmez

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The Chicago Board of Education is implementing a centralized clearinghouse to assign students to schools for 2018-19 admissions. In this clearinghouse, each student can simultaneously be admitted to a selective and a nonselective school. We study this divided enrollment system and show that an alternative unified enrollment system, which assigns each student to only one school, is better for all students. We also examine systems with two stages of admissions, which has also been considered in Chicago, and establish conditions under which the unified enrollment system is better than the divided enrollment system.

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  • Battal Dogan & Bumin Yenmez, 2017. "Unified Enrollment in School Choice: How to Improve Student Assignment in Chicago," Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie 17.10, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie.
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    Keywords

    Market design; school choice; unified enrollment;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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