Compass-school

This Python implementation tries to model school choice and resulting school segregation based on the work of Schelling (1971) and Stoica & Flache (2014).

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What Compass-school can do for you

  • An agent-based model for primary-school choice
  • empirically realistic -- used to simulate the city of Amsterdam
  • can model strongly non-linear effects in for instance segregation
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Programming languages
  • Python 99%
  • HTML 1%
License
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Participating organisations

Netherlands eScience Center
ODISSEI
University of Amsterdam
University of Groningen
Social Sciences & Humanities
Social Sciences & Humanities

Testimonials

Empirically calibrated agent-based modelling offers a powerful tool for future research, but it does require more computational power than traditional methodologies used in school choice/segregation research. Fortunately, the efforts Jisk Attema and Ji Qi from the eScience centre effectively helped us improving code efficiency.
Andreas Flache in the project end report

Contributors

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Eric Dignum
NvH
Nigel van Herwijnen
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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efi athieniti

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