Experiments to generate new data about school choice

Berg, Nathan (2009): Experiments to generate new data about school choice. Published in: Journal of School Choice , Vol. 3, No. 4 (2009): pp. 397-413.

Abstract

Behavioral/experimental economics is poised to enter a new phase in its relatively brief intellectual history, moving beyond empirical tests of standard behavioral assumptions in the social sciences to the problem of designing improved institutions that are tuned to fit real-world behavior. For this reason and others, it is worthwhile to analyze the potential value that new experiments could provide to the school choice debates by generating new data to settle longstanding questions.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Behavioral Economics, Education Economics, Experimental Economics, Policy Experiment, Bounded Rationality, Ecological Rationality, As-If, Methodology, Choice, Procedural Rationality
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I20 - General

References

Berg, N., (forthcoming), Illusive competition in school reform: Comment on Merrifield’s “Imagined evidence and false imperatives,” Journal of School Choice.

Merrifield, J. (this issue), Defining Continuous Improvement and Cost Minimization Possibilities Through School Choice Experiments, Journal of School Choice.