Iterative versus standard deferred acceptance: experimental evidence
Abstract: We run laboratory experiments where subjects are matched to colleges, and colleges are not strategic agents. We test the Gale-Shapley Deferred Acceptance (DA) mechanism versus the Iterative Deferred Acceptance Mechanism (IDAM), a matching mechanism based on a new family of procedures being used in the field, in which information about tentative allocations is provided while students make choices. We consider two variations of IDAM: one in which they are only informed about whether they are tentatively accepted or not (IDAM-NC) and one in which students are additionally informed at each step of the tentative cutoff values for acceptance at each school (IDAM). A significantly higher proportion of stable outcomes is reached both under IDAM and IDAM-NC than under DA. The difference can be explained by a higher proportion of subjects following an equilibrium strategy akin to truthful behavior under IDAM and IDAM-NC than truthful behavior itself under DA. Moreover, the provision of inter
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 38 S.
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Englisch
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Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt und Entscheidung, Abteilung Verhalten auf Märkten ; Bd. SP II 2016-209
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Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2016
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
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2016
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022020211211469774917
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Bó, Inácio Guerberoff Lanari
- Hakimov, Rustamdjan
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Time of origin
- 2016
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