Beyond Truth‐Telling: A Replication Study on School Choice

TOMMY ANDERSSON; Dany Kessel; Nils Lager; Elisabet Olme; Simon Reese

doi:10.1002/jae.70038

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Beyond Truth‐Telling: A Replication Study on School Choice

TOMMY ANDERSSON Dany Kessel Nils Lager Elisabet Olme Simon Reese

Journal of Applied Econometrics Vol. 41 No. 3 pp. 323-329 · Wiley

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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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Published: Jan 08, 2026
Vol/Issue: 41(3)
Pages: 323-329
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Authors

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TOMMY ANDERSSON

Department of Economics Lund University Lund Sweden; Department of Economics Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm Sweden

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Dany Kessel

Department of Economics Södertörn University Stockholm Sweden

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Nils Lager

Department of Economics Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm Sweden

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Elisabet Olme

Svensk Utbildningsteknologi AB Stockholm Sweden

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Simon Reese

Department of Economics Lund University Lund Sweden

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TOMMY ANDERSSON, Dany Kessel, Nils Lager, et al. (2026). Beyond Truth‐Telling: A Replication Study on School Choice. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 41(3), 323-329. https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.70038

Beyond Truth‐Telling: A Replication Study on School Choice

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