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Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 72
Citations - 8572
Atila Abdulkadiroglu is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: School choice & Attendance. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 70 publications receiving 7512 citations. Previous affiliations of Atila Abdulkadiroglu include University of Rochester & Columbia University.
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School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors formulate the school choice problem as a mechanism design problem and analyze some of the existing school choice plans including those in Boston, Columbus, Minneapolis, and Seattle, and offer two alternative mechanisms each of which may provide a practical solution to some critical school choice issues.
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The New York City High School Match
TL;DR: In the first year, only about 3,000 students had to be assigned to a school for which they had not indicated a preference, which is only 10 percent of the number of such assignments the previous year as mentioned in this paper.
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Random serial dictatorship and the core from random endowments in house allocation problems
TL;DR: Random serial dictatorship and the core from random endowments in house allocation problems as mentioned in this paper were used to solve the problem of house allocation in a house allocation problem in the 1990s.
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The Boston Public School Match
TL;DR: The Boston Public Schools (BPS) system for assigning students to schools is described in this paper, where the authors describe some of the difficulties with the current assignment mechanism and some elements of the design and evaluation of possible replacement mechanisms.
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Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the impact of charters' attendance on student achievement using data from Boston, where charters enroll a growing share of students, and evaluate an alternative to the charter model, Boston's pilot schools.