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Diversity Balance in Centralized Public School Admissions

  • Atila Abdulkadiroğlu
  • Aram Grigoryan
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol. 114, May 2024
(pp. 497–501)
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Abstract

Parental choice over public schools has become a major educational reform throughout the United States and the world. Most district policies are implemented via admission priorities. Diversity in admissions is a common policy goal. However, it necessitates the violation of some priorities. We develop an axiomatic theory for meeting diversity objectives with a reserves system. We axiomatize the trade-off between diversity and priorities. We characterize the solution that uniquely and optimally achieves the diversity objectives via reserves by minimizing priority violations. The choice rule corresponds to a simple and natural implementation of application orders in a reserves system.

Citation

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila, and Aram Grigoryan. 2024. "Diversity Balance in Centralized Public School Admissions." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 114: 497–501. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20241066

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JEL Classification

  • H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
  • I21 Analysis of Education
  • I28 Education: Government Policy