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On the (im)possibility of improving upon the student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism
Kesten, Onur; Kurino, Morimitsu - 2012
This paper studies a general school choice problem with or without outside options. The Gale-Shapley student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism (DA) has played a central role not only in theory but also in important practical applications. We show that in problems where some students cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309612
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On the (im)possibility of improving upon the student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism
Kesten, Onur; Kurino, Morimitsu - 2012
This paper studies a general school choice problem with or without outside options. The Gale-Shapley student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism (DA) has played a central role not only in theory but also in important practical applications. We show that in problems where some students cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009566572
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Strategy-proof tie-breaking in matching with priorities
Ehlers, Lars H.; Westkamp, Alexander - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 13 (2018) 3, pp. 1009-1042
-proof mechanism that is constrained efficient, i.e. that always produces a stable matching that is not Pareto-dominated by another … stable matching. We characterize all solvable priority structures satisfying the following two restrictions: (A) Either there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937252
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Wage cyclicality and the wage curve under the microscope
Ludsteck, Johannes - 2008
werden. -- wage setting ; hiring standards ; wage rigidity ; wage curve ; matching ; censoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873943
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Gender and racial biases: Evidence from child adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266105
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Does bargaining matter in the small firm's matching model?
L'Haridon, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Pérez-Duarte, … - 2011
's matching model of unemployment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to implement and systematically compare … these solutions in search-matching economies. Our results are twofold. First from the theoretical and methodological … viewpoint, we extend a somewhat flexible search-matching economy to alternative bargaining solutions. In particular, we prove …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238027
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Trading networks with frictions
Fleiner, Tamás; Jagadeesan, Ravi; Jankó, Zsuzsanna; … - 2020
We show how frictions and continuous transfers jointly affect equilibria in a model of matching in trading networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212204
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Diversifying society's leaders? : the causal effects of admission to highly selective private colleges
Chetty, Raj; Deming, David J.; Friedman, John N - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470737
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Universities in the market for continuing higher education
Wentzel, Bettina; Oelmann, Mark - 2002
The purpose of the paper is to explain why and how American universities have taken the lead in continuing education compared to their European counterparts. In a first step we will discuss different notions of continuing education and develop an analytical framework to handle its various forms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270675
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343