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How lotteries in school choice help to level the playing field
Basteck, Christian; Klaus, Bettina; Kübler, Dorothea - 2018
equilibrium for the immediate acceptance mechanism. This finds support in the experiment. Moreover, the lottery quota leads to …
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Monkey see, monkey do: Truth-telling in matching algorithms and the manipulation of others
Guillen, Pablo; Hakimov, Rustamdjan - 2014
We test the effect of the amount of information on the strategies played by others in the theoretically strategy …
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Aiding applicants: Leveling the playing field within the immediate acceptance mechanism
Basteck, Christian; Mantovani, Marco - 2021
aid applicants within IA, rather than to abandon it. In a laboratory experiment, we first document a substantial gap in … strategy choices and outcomes between subjects of higher and lower cognitive ability under IA. We then test whether disclosing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745153
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From Boston to Chinese parallel to deferred acceptance: Theory and experiments on a family of school choice mechanisms
Chen, Yan; Onur, Kesten - 2013
We characterize a parametric family of application-rejection school choice mechanisms, including the Boston and Deferred Acceptance mechanisms as special cases, and spanning the parallel mechanisms for Chinese college admissions, the largest centralized matching in the world. Moving from one...
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