Comparing school choice and college admissions mechanisms by their strategic accessibility

Artikel

Dozens of school districts and college admissions systems around the world have reformed their admissions rules in recent years. As the main motivation for these reforms, the policymakers cited the strategic flaws of the rules in place: students had incentives to game the system. However, after the reforms, almost none of the new rules became strategy-proof. We explain this puzzle. We show that the rules used after the reforms are less prone to gaming according to a criterion called "strategic accessibility": each reform expands the set of schools wherein each student can never get admission by manipulation. We also show that the existing explanation of the puzzle due to Pathak and Sönmez (2013) is incomplete.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 16 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 881-909 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory ; Market Design ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
• Subject: Market design ; school choice ; manipulability

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bonkoungou, Somouaoga ; Nesterov, Alexander
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The Econometric Society
• (where): New Haven, CT
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.3982/TE4137
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/253519
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET