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IAP 2017



Minimizing Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans OneApp

Parag Pathak, Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor

Jan/27 Fri 01:00PM-02:00PM E52-432

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

In 2011, New Orleans' Recovery School District became the first in the nation to adopt a unified enrollment system for admissions to traditional public and charter schools.  This talk will describe the assignment mechanism underlying New Orleans system, and show new formal results about its envy-minimizing properties.  We also discuss why the city adopted a new mechanism after one year, and lessons for economic design.

 

Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Beata Shuster, E52-439A, 617 253-8883, BSHUSTER@MIT.EDU