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College admissions with entrance exams: Centralized versus decentralized
Hafalir, Isa E.; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea; … - Abteilung "Verhalten auf Märkten", … - 2014
We theoretically and experimentally study a college admissions problem in which colleges accept students by ranking … students' efforts in entrance exams. Students hold private information regarding their ability level that affects the cost of … their efforts. We assume that student preferences are homogeneous over colleges. By modeling college admissions as contests …
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - In: Games and Economic Behavior 85 (2014) C, pp. 232-251
each university for a special subgroup of students. The first mechanism mimics the sequential procedure currently used by … eligible students and then allocates all remaining seats among those who were not already assigned one of the reserved seats in …
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - Abteilung "Verhalten auf Märkten", … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647156
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modied version of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651899
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886875
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2011
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990344
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Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Haeringer, Guillaume; Klijn, Flip - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2008
The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects' incentives are drastically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823951
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Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Haeringer, Guillaume; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008
The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects incentives are drastically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547189
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Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study
Haeringer, Guillaume; Calsamiglia, Caterina; Klijn, Flip - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects' incentives are drastically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008015
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit. Doch welche Gründe liegen, trotz der über die Jahre eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende...
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