Haan, Monique de; Gautier, Pieter; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2015
Theory points to a potential trade-off between two main school assignment mechanisms; Boston and Deferred Acceptance … (DA). While DA is strategy-proof and gives a stable matching, Boston might outperform DA in terms of ex-ante efficiency …. We quantify the (dis)advantages of the mechanisms by using information about actual choices under Boston complemented …