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-qualified students subject to budget and capacity constraints. Student-proposing deferred acceptance is stable and strategy-proof for … students, but the set of stable allocations is large and the scope for manipulation by colleges is substantial, even in large … deferred acceptance, choosing another stable allocation would increase the number of admitted students by at least 3% …
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strategies, showing that the cutoff signals implement all implementable state-independent distributions of students across …
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In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...
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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...
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matching mechanism that is strategyproof for students. n the context of the German admissions problem, this mechanism weakly …
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Turkey show many pieces of evidence that students construct their lists strategically according to their admission chances … our preference estimates suggests that students from low SES households are better off under a student sorting rule only …
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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 … evaluate the former French college admission system, where students could finalize their matches at different dates up to two …
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mechanism that allows students to provide incomplete but expandable preference lists (EPLs). In contrast to the standard one …-shot (direct-revelation) or multirun (sequential-like) designs, the EPL mechanism matches students and colleges in a continuous … all students to the clearinghouse, whereas every student only needs to provide an incomplete initial preference list …
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