Invites you to a

Microeconomics Theory seminar presented by

Antonio Miralles

(The University of Messina)

Catchment Areas, Stratification and Access to Better Schools

Co-author:

Caterina Calsamiglia (Barcelona IPEG)

Tuesday 29 November

4.00pm – 5.00pm

Via Zoom: Meeting Link

Abstract: School Choice programs are intended to offer students access to better schools than their neighborhood school. This is of paramount importance for students coming from disadvantaged areas, for stratified districts with unambiguously bad schools. So Access to Better Schools is a matter of efficiency yet also a matter of fairness. We illustrate with a simple theoretical model and with complementary numerical simulations that Top Trading Cycles provides more access to better schools in general and particularly for disadvantaged students, as compared to Deferred Acceptance. The intuition is twofold: 1) the well- known interrupters problem overwhelms real choice under DA for realistically large market sizes, 2) in TTC, disadvantaged students have better chances for “leftover” seats at underprioritized good schools.

For further information contact: Microeconomics Theory seminar series coordinators Dr Mengke Wang (mengke.wang@sydney.edu.au) & Dr Mert Kimya (mert.kimya@sydney.edu.au)

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