Browsing by Author "Roth, Alvin E"

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    • Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism 

      Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Pathak, Parag A; Roth, Alvin E; Sonmez, Tayfun (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 ...

    • Strategyproofness Versus Efficiency in Matching With Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match 

      Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Pathak, Parag A; Roth, Alvin E (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 ...