Lotteries in Student Assignment: An Equivalence Result

This paper formally examines two competing methods of conducting a lottery in assigning students to schools, motivated by the design of the centralized high school student assignment system in New York City. The main result of the paper is that a single and multiple lottery mechanism are equivalent...

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Main Authors: Pathak, Parag (Contributor), Sethuraman, Jay (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Economic Theory, 2011-03-18T19:09:38Z.
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