Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching

For helpful comments, we thank Bnaya Dreyfuss, Rustam Hakimov, Ori Heffetz, Dorothea Kübler, Xiao Lin, Muriel Niederle, Assaf Romm, Alex Teytelboym, and seminar participants at the ASSA Annual Meetings, Microsoft Research NYC, the NBER Summer Institute Workshop on the Economics of Education, New York University, the Niederle Reading Group on Cognitive Reasoning, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, the Twenty-First ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’20), the University of Toronto. We thank J.P. Bruno and Robert Hovakimyan for excellent research assistance. We thank the Wharton Behavioral Lab and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF grant 2016015) for financial support. The opinions expressed in this paper are solely the authors’, and do not necessarily reflect the views of any individual or institution listed above, nor of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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