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标题：School Choice Mechanisms, Peer Effects and Sorting
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作者：Caterina Calsamiglia ; Francisco Martinez-Mora ; Antonio Miralles 等
期刊名称：Discussion Papers / University of Leicester, Department of Economics
出版年度：2015
出版社：Leicester
摘要：We study the e¤ects that school choice mechanisms and school priorities have on the degree of sorting of students across schools and neighborhoods, when school quality is endogenously determined by the peer group. Using a model with income or ability heterogeneity, we compare the popular Deferred Acceptance (DA) and Boston (BM) mechanisms under several scenarios. With residential priorities, students and their households fully segregate into quality-anked schools and neighborhoods under both mechanisms. With no residential priorities and a bad public school, DA does not generate sorting in general, while BM does so between a priori good public schools. With private schools, the best public school becomes more elitist under BM.