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Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism

Abdulkadiroglu, Dr Atila; Pathak, Parag; Roth, Alvin E.; Sonmez, Tayfun (SSRN eLibrary, 2006)

05 the Boston School Committee voted to replace the existing Boston school choice mechanism with a deferred acceptance mechanism that simplifies the strategic choices facing parents. This paper presents the empirical case ...
Random Serial Dictatorship and the Core from Random Endowments in House Allocation Problems

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Sonmez, Tayfun (Econometrica, 1998)

WHEN A COLLEGE GRADUATE decides to pursue a higher degree at a particular institution, one of the first challenges she faces is finding an apartment. Most institutions have on-campus housing available that is often subsidized ...
School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach

Abdulkadiroglu, Dr Atila; Sönmez, Tayfun (American Economic Association, 2003)

A central issue in school choice is the design of a student assignment mechanism. Education literature provides guidance for the design of such mechanisms but does not offer specific mechanisms. The flaws in the existing ...
Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila (AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC, 2009)

The design of the New York City (NYC) high school match involved trade-offs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences-ties-in school ...
Strategyproofness Versus Efficiency in Matching With Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Pathak, Parag; Roth, Alvin E. (SSRN eLibrary, 2008)

of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs between incentives and efficiency, because some schools are strategic players that rank students in order of preference, while others order students based on ...