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Effective affirmative action in school choice
Yenmez, M. Bumin; Yildirim, Muhammed Ali; Hafalir, Isa Emin - In: Theoretical Economics 8 (2013) 2, pp. 325-363
The prevalent affirmative action policy in school choice limits the number of admitted majority students to give … allows for correlations between student preferences and school priorities, indicate that minorities are on average better off …
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School choice under partial fairness
Dur, Umut Mert; Gitmez, A. Arda; Yilmaz, Özgür - In: Theoretical Economics 14 (2019) 4, pp. 1309-1346
We generalize the school choice problem by defining a notion of allowable priority violations. In this setting, a weak …
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Strategy-proof tie-breaking in matching with priorities
Ehlers, Lars H.; Westkamp, Alexander - In: Theoretical Economics 13 (2018) 3, pp. 1009-1042
A set of indivisible objects is allocated among agents with strict preferences. Each object has a weak priority ranking of the agents. A collection of priority rankings, a priority structure, is solvable if there is a strategy-proof mechanism that is constrained efficient, i.e. that always...
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A theory of school choice lotteries
Kesten, Onur; Ünver, M. Utku - In: Theoretical Economics 10 (2015) 2, pp. 543-595
advocated for its superior fairness property, besides others. We introduce a new framework for school-choice problems and two …
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Matching with slot-specific priorities: theory
Kominers, Scott Duke; Sönmez, Tayfun - In: Theoretical Economics 11 (2016) 2, pp. 683-710
We introduce a two-sided, many-to-one matching with contracts model in which agents with unit demand match to branches that may have multiple slots available to accept contracts. Each slot has its own linear priority order over contracts; a branch chooses contracts by filling its slots...
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Comparing school choice and college admissions mechanisms by their strategic accessibility
Bonkoungou, Somouaoga; Nesterov, Alexander - In: Theoretical Economics 16 (2021) 3, pp. 881-909
Dozens of school districts and college admissions systems around the world have reformed their admissions rules in …
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Common enrollment in school choice
Ekmekci, Mehmet; Yenmez, M. Bumin - In: Theoretical Economics 14 (2019) 4, pp. 1237-1270
Increasingly, more school districts across the US are using centralized admissions for charter, magnet, and … neighborhood schools in a common enrollment system. We first show that, across all school-participation patterns, full …
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Incentives in matching markets: counting and comparing manipulating agents
Bonkoungou, Somouaoga; Nesterov, Alexander - In: Theoretical Economics 18 (2023) 3, pp. 965-991
decisions such as the design of the entry-level medical labor market in the US, and school admissions systems in New York …
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Improving matching under hard distributional constraints
Fragiadakis, Daniel; Troyan, Peter - In: Theoretical Economics 12 (2017) 2, pp. 863-908
requirements at each Army branch in military cadet matching and diversity considerations in school choice, whereby school districts … impose constraints on the demographic distribution of students at each school. Standard assignment mechanisms implemented in …
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Fußballspiele, Polizeieinsätze und Steuerzahler: Ökonomische Anmerkungen zur Polizeikosten-Debatte
Mause, Karsten - In: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik 45 (2020) 4, pp. 423-440
Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob es aus ökonomischer Sicht zu rechtfertigen ist, dass in Deutschland der allgemeine Steuerzahler die Kosten für die an Spieltagen im Profifußball anfallenden Polizeieinsätze finanziert. Diese Frage wird zwar in Politik und Öffentlichkeit sowie im...
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