strategies, showing that the cutoff signals implement all implementable state-independent distributions of students across …

colleges to strategically target their admissions, forgoing students sought after by others and seeking students overlooked by … others. When students' types are multidimensional, colleges avoid head-on competition by placing excessive weights on less … the resulting assignments of decentralized matching are inefficient and unfair. A centralized matching via Gale and …

We explore the possibility of designing matching mechanisms that can accommodate non-standard choice behavior. We pin … compatible mechanisms. Our results imply that well-functioning matching markets can be designed to adequately accommodate a … the significance of our results in practice, we show that a simple modification in a commonly used matching mechanism …