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 mechanism currently employed by the German central...

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 mechanism currently employed by the German central...

Recently dozens of school districts and college admissions systems around the world have reformed their admission rules. 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...

This paper analyzes the sequential admissions procedure for medical subjects at public universities in Germany. Complete information equilibrium outcomes are shown to be characterized by a \emph{stability} condition that is adapted to the \emph{institutional constraints} of the German system. I...

We introduce a college admission with tuition transfers problem. In this novel formulation, students' payments are not necessarily equal to their respective tuition fees. However, the total requested tuition fees must be equal to the total payment burden on students. We introduce two mechanism...

We study a dynamic two-sided many-to-one matching model that generalizes the college admissions problem. A dynamically stable matching does not generally exist. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a dynamically stable matching and show that some but not all results for the...

This paper develops a method for identifying and estimating student preferences in centralized matching mechanisms when students are ranked by exam scores. In these mechanisms, exam scores contain important information for inferring students' heterogeneous preferences because students have...

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...

We study multi-period college admission problems where, at each period, a matching is computed and students have option to either finalize their matches or participate to the next period. Students participating to an additional run of the matching mechanism can submit a new preference list to...

In this paper, I investigate matching problems where priorities and preferences are misaligned. In the case of centralized college admissions, students are matched based on their test scores in standardized tests (priorities), a noisy realization of their aptitudes (colleges' preferences) due to...