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Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1994 Eighteen educators and scholars discuss vouchers as a means of promoting school choice and introducing competition into education. The discussion centers around the thinking of the economist Herbert Gintis, who participated in the discussion, and his ...
Gene V Glass
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School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment. [PDF]
Am Econ Rev, 2014 We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college attainment among lottery winners who attend their first-choice school.
Deming DJ +3 more
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Expanding "Choice" in School Choice [PDF]
Expanding "Choice" in School Choicehttps://www.grips.ac.jp/list/jp/facultyinfo/yasuda_yosuke/ Truthful revelation of preferences has emerged as a desideratum in the design of school choice programs. Gale-Shapley’s deferred acceptance mechanism is strategy-proof for students but limits their ability to communicate their preference intensities.
Atila Abdulkadiroğlu +2 more
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Comprehensive sexuality education in Hong Kong: study protocol for process and outcome evaluation
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Hong Kong lacks comprehensive school-based sexuality education. Recent public health concerns have brought the inadequacies of sex education in Hong Kong to the forefront.
Ellie Bostwick Andres +6 more
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Expanding 'Choice' in School Choice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Gale-Shapley's deferred acceptance (henceforth DA) mechanism has emerged as a prominent candidate for placing students to public schools. While DA has desirable fairness and incentive properties, it limits the applicants' abilities to communicate their preference intensities, which entails ex ante inefficiency when ties at school preferences are ...
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila +2 more
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Agent-based models in urban transportation: review, challenges, and opportunities
European Transport Research Review, 2023 Objective This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of agent-based models, focusing specifically on their application in urban transportation research.
Faza Fawzan Bastarianto +3 more
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Constrained school choice [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 2009 Recently, several school districts in the US have adopted or consider adopting the Student-Optimal Stable Mechanism or the Top Trading Cycles Mechanism to assign children to public schools. There is clear evidence that for school districts that employ (variants of) the so-called Boston Mechanism the transition would lead to efficiency gains.
Guillaume Haeringer, Flip Klijn
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Pharmacy deserts and COVID-19 risk at the census tract level in the State of Washington
Vaccine: X, 2022 Community pharmacies are a crucial component of healthcare infrastructure, including for COVID-19 pandemic prevention services like testing and vaccination. Communities that are “pharmacy deserts,” experience healthcare inequities.
Rachel Wittenauer +3 more
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Quality of life and everyday mobility of schoolchildren: what choice do Moscow parents make? [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The educational space of a contemporary metropolis is characterized by broad diversity. Often, the choice of an educational institution that best meets the needs of the child and family is made in favor of a school that is at a distance from home, and ...
Nekhorosheva Elena +2 more
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020 Background Incorporating patient preference (PP) information into decision-making has become increasingly important to many stakeholders. However, there is little guidance on which patient preference assessment methods, including preference exploration ...
Chiara Whichello +6 more
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