Experiments to Generate New Data about School Choice

Journal of School Choice, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 397-413, 2009

12 Pages Posted: 15 Oct 2010

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Nathan Berg

University of Otago, Department of Economics

Date Written: 2009

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.

Keywords: Behavioral Economics, Education Economics, Experimental Economics, Policy Experiment, Bounded Rationality, Ecological Rationality, As-If, Methodology, Choice, Procedural Rationality

JEL Classification: D03, I02

Suggested Citation

Berg, Nathan, Experiments to Generate New Data about School Choice (2009). Journal of School Choice, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 397-413, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1691923

Nathan Berg (Contact Author)

University of Otago, Department of Economics ( email )

P.O. Box 56
Dunedin, Otago 9016
New Zealand

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