The equitable top trading cycles mechanism for school choice

Arbeitspapier | Working paper

A particular adaptation of Gale's top trading cycles procedure to school choice, the so-called TTC mechanism, has attracted much attention both in theory and practice due to its superior efficiency and incentive features. We discuss and introduce alternative adaptations of Gale's original procedure that can offer improvements over TTC in terms of equity along with various other distributional considerations. Instead of giving all the trading power to those students with the highest priority for a school, we argue for the distribution of the trading rights of all slots of each school among those who are entitled to a slot at that school, allowing them to trade in a thick market where additional constraints can be accommodated. We propose a particular mechanism of this kind, the Equitable Top Trading Cycles (ETTC) mechanism, which is also Pareto efficient and strategy-proof just like TTC and eliminates justified envy due to pairwise exchanges. Both in simulations and in the lab, ETTC generates significantly fewer number of justified envy situations than TTC. (author's abstract)

Angaben zum Objekt

• Umfang: Seite(n): 43
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt und Entscheidung, Abteilung Verhalten auf Märkten (SP II 2014-210)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Bildung und Erziehung ; Makroebene des Bildungswesens ; Schulwahl ; Stabilität ; Verteilung ; Gerechtigkeit ; Entscheidungsfindung

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hakimov, Rustamdjan ; Kesten, Onur
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
• (wo): Deutschland, Berlin
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/1040655
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ