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The point is that if you allow swapping, people will change their behaviour regarding for which schools they will initially enroll. They will, essentially, star
by gpvos 8y ago
The point is that if you allow swapping, people will change their behaviour regarding for which schools they will initially enroll. They will, essentially, start gambling with very incomplete information, and many will be worse off.
I've been to a presentation by the Amsterdam civil servants who set this up, and they have run lots of simulations with several systems, and also compared the actual outcome of the current system with that of the previous ones. While some of the requirements one might want are logically incompatible, the current system does satisfy the requirements that, as far as I can see, most Dutch people would find the most important. Whichever way you decide, it's a policy decision.
Besides, free trade is always regulated in order for the market to function well.
- conanbatt 8y agoVery unconvinced with the notion that the parents of kids are unable to make school choices, and that removing the choice altogether gives better results. I believe it gives a high level of heterogeneity that the Dutch might not want to tolerate, but it does not give superior school choices. Removing choices sometimes do help to choose better, but generally the more choices the better. Lets not put Dutch policy in a pedestal: they have a retirement system that is so pervasive, that once you are 60, you earn more money by retiring than by continuing to work, and thus literally push the entire population to retire at the same age.
- Scarblac 8y ago> they have a retirement system that is so pervasive, that once you are 60, you earn more money by retiring than by continuing to work, and thus literally push the entire population to retire at the same age. You don't get paid retirement money unless you are of retirement age. That is 68 at the moment, and increasing. And then, you get the money regardless of whether you're still working (most people stop).
- conanbatt 8y agoI just googled the netherlands and I see a completely different system than the one I was told about. I completely retract the reference.