Modeling the Transition to Public School Choice
Authored by Spiro Maroulis, Eytan Bakshy, Louis Gomez, Uri Wilensky
Date Published: 2014
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Model Code URLs:
https://www.comses.net/codebases/3695/releases/1.1.0/
Abstract
We develop an agent-based model that captures the dynamic processes
related to moving from an educational system in which students are
automatically assigned to a neighborhood school to one that gives
households more choice among existing and newly formed public schools.
Analysis of our model reveals the importance of considering the timing
of the entrance of new schools into the system in addition to their
quantity and quality. Our model further reveals a range of conditions
where the more households emphasize school achievement relative to
geographic proximity in their school choice decision, the lower the mean
achievement of the district a paradoxical mismatch between micro-and
macro-levels of behavior. We use data from Chicago Public Schools to
initialize the model.
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