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Obvious Mistakes in a Strategically Simple College Admissions Environment : Causes and Consequences
Shorrer, Ran I. - 2019
. Costly mistakes transfer tuition waivers from high– to low-socioeconomic status students, and increase the number of students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901645
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Obvious mistakes in a strategically simple college admissions environment
Shorrer, Ran I.; Sóvágó, Sándor - 2017
2013. Costly mistakes have externalities: they transfer tuition waivers from high- to low-socioeconomic status students …, and increase the number of students attending college. To shed light on the mechanisms underlying mistakes, we exploit a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772987
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Widening Access in University Admissions
Doğan, Battal; Erdil, Aytek - 2023
Widening access to higher education remains a significant policy challenge. While meeting student intake targets in university admissions is notoriously difficult, additionally pursuing access targets makes universities’ decision problem even more complicated. We introduce a choice procedure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256173
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Comparing School Choice and College Admission Mechanisms By Their Immunity to Strategic Admissions
Bonkoungou, Somouaoga - 2020
. As a main motivation for these reforms the policymakers cited strategic flaws of the rules: students had strong … incentives to game the system, which caused dramatic consequences for non-strategic students. However, almost none of the new … manipulate. Simultaneously, the admission to each school became strategy-proof to a larger set of students, making the schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843021
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Dynamic College Admissions Problem
Ho, Ken - 2019
particular, the set of dynamically stable matchings forms a lattice with respect to students' preferences but not with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903603
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College Admissions with Complementarities
Abizada, Azar - 2017
We study many-to-one matching with complementarities. Real life examples include college admissions with two-sided monetary transfers, teacher assignment with different teaching loads, worker assignment. Due to the presence of complementarities, the conditions that are essential for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967866
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College Admissions in China : A Mechanism Design Perspective
Zhu, Min - 2014
This paper justifies the evolution of the college admissions system in China from a mechanism design perspective. The sequential choice algorithm and the parallel choice algorithm used in the context of China's college admissions system are formulated as the well-studied Boston mechanism and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062970
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Student Financing, Opportunity Growth, and Equity In Access to Higher Education; A Czech-Dutch Comparative Study of Student Support Systems
Konecny, Tomas; Mateju, Petr - 2009
choice. This article analyzes the impact of financial conditions on higher education participation among students from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205558
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Are University Admissions Academically Fair?
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Kanaya, Shin; Stevens, Margaret - 2016
bias. In this paper, we develop an empirical test that attempts to circumvent this problem. We assume that students who are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168858
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Minimally Unstable Pareto Improvements over Deferred Acceptance
Doğan, Battal - 2020
stability comparison based on the set of blocking students who are involved in at least one blocking pair, show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822608