Behavioral design of school choice programs.

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Rustamdjan Hakimov
• Subject Area: Economic Theory
• Term: Funded in 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 322981331

The project considers practical implementation of the existing allocation mechanisms for the school choice programs. In school choice programs parents rank schools as the best option, second-best option, and so on, and the centralized authority uses a mechanism to match students to schools, taking the preferences of the parents into account. The current experimental evidence suggests a high degree of deviations from the optimal behavior in the preference reporting by parents. This project aims to provide help for parents to report optimally in the school choice programs, by incorporating behavioral considerations in the process of implementation of the existing mechanisms.

• DFG Programme: Research Fellowships
• International Connection: USA
• Host: Professor Adrew Schotter, Ph.D.