Behavioral design of school choice programs.

该项目考虑实际执行现有的择校方案分配机制。在择校计划中，家长将学校列为最佳选项、次佳选项等，中央当局采用一种机制，考虑家长的偏好，将学生与学校配对。目前的实验证据表明，父母的偏好报告在很大程度上偏离了最佳行为。该项目旨在通过将行为考虑纳入现有机制的实施过程，为家长在择校方案中提供最佳报告。

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.