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Beyond Truth-Telling: A Replication Study on School Choice
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Beyond Truth-Telling: A Replication Study on School Choice

Tommy Andersson, Dany Kessel, Nils Lager, Elisabet Olme and Simon Reese
Journal of Applied Econometrics (Chichester, England), Vol.41(3), pp.323-329
2026-04

Abstract

deferred acceptance algorithm replication study school choice stability truth-telling D12 D82 I23
In a recent paper, Fack et al. (2019, American Economic Review) convincingly argue and theoretically demonstrate that there may be strong incentives for students to play non-truth-telling strategies when reporting preferences over schools, even when the celebrated deferred acceptance algorithm is employed. Their statistical test also rejects the (weak) truth-telling assumption in favour of another assumption, called stability, using a single data set on school choice in Paris. This paper uses Swedish school choice data and replicates their empirical finding in 45 of the 57 investigated data sets ( value threshold 0.05).
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