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experiment on one of China's largest online dating websites. To rule out unobserved factors correlated with income as the basis …
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Registrars' offices at most universities face the daunting task of allocating course seats to students. Because demand exceeds supply for many courses, course allocation needs to be done equitably and efficiently. Many schools use bidding systems in which student bids are used both to infer...
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Abstract. This paper analyzes matching markets where agent types are n-vectors of characteristics--i.e. points in R …). First, given a few assumptions, I show that in the Gale-Shapley stable matching in this environment, agents match to a … consumers. Finally, I address an unanswered question in the matching literature--can multidimensional preferences be aggregated …
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We develop a model in which firms set their salary levels before matching with workers. Wages fall relative to any … recent antitrust case against the National Residency Matching Program in light of our results …
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it replaced. In this paper, we introduce a new framework for investigating school-choice matching problems and two ex …-to-many two-sided and one-sided matching models. We first show that the new NYC/Boston mechanism fails to satisfy these fairness …
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and experiment in which workers’ quality becomes known only in the late part of the market. However, in equilibrium …, matching can occur (inefficiently) early only when there is comparable demand and supply: a surplus of applicants, but a …
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The Boston mechanism is a popular student-placement mechanism in school-choice programs around the world. We provide two characterizations of the Boston mechanism. We introduce a new axiom, respect of preference rankings. A mechanism is the Boston mechanism for some priority if and only if it...
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match the same incompatible pairs while matching the least number of compatible pairs. We extend the celebrated Gallai …
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