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Aiding applicants: leveling the playing field within the immediate acceptance mechanism
Basteck, Christian; Mantovani, Marco - 2021
In school choice problems, the widely used manipulable Immediate Acceptance mechanism (IA) disadvantages unsophisticated applicants, but may ex-ante Pareto dominate any strategy-proof alternative. In these cases, it may be preferable to aid applicants within IA, rather than to abandon it. In a...
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How lotteries in school choice help to level the playing field
Basteck, Christian; Klaus, Bettina; Kübler, Dorothea - 2018
students, and the student composition at schools, using theory and experiments. We find that the lottery quota strengthens … more diverse school populations in the experiments, as predicted. Comparing the two mechanisms, students with the lowest …
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