Worthwhile or not? Estimating the impacts of AI-based recommendation systems on Chile’s school choice system

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dc.contributor.advisorFigueroa González, Nicolás Andrés
dc.contributor.advisorAsahi Kodama, Kenzo Javier
dc.contributor.authorIcaran Sagaceta, Rodrigo Ignacio
dc.contributor.otherPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-05T12:38:17Z
dc.date.available2021-03-05T12:38:17Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2021-02-08T14:31:12Z
dc.descriptionTesis (Magíster en Economía)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2020
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies the effects of implementing a recommender system in the context of the Chilean School Choice System. We develop an artificial intelligence-based algorithm for suggesting schools to students. Using these suggestions as input, and conjecturing different levels of acceptance rates by the population, we evaluate the general equilibrium effects of this policy. If, on average, students accepted one suggestion each, this technology could decrease the percentage of non-assigned students by 1.5pp. However, since good schools are a scarce resource, not everyone benefits from this policy. We find minor effects on commuting distances and assigned schools’ SIMCE scores. Also, we show that this technology has small but negative impacts on social welfare from a utilitarian perspective. Our results offer powerful insight for public policy and suggest that the impacts of a recommender system in a context of rival goods may be counterintuitive.
dc.format.extent68 páginas
dc.identifier.doi10.7764/tesisUC/ECO/52686
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.7764/tesisUC/ECO/52686
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/52686
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subject.ddc379.1110983
dc.subject.deweyEducaciónes_ES
dc.subject.otherElección de colegios - Investigaciones - Chilees_ES
dc.subject.otherElección de colegios - Chile - Procesamiento de datoses_ES
dc.titleWorthwhile or not? Estimating the impacts of AI-based recommendation systems on Chile’s school choice systemes_ES
dc.typetesis de maestría
sipa.codpersvinculados1010172
sipa.codpersvinculados4661
sipa.codpersvinculados246132
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