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What's the Matter with Tie-Breaking? Improving Efficiency in School Choice

Erdil, Aytek, Ergin, Haluk·2008·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.98.3.669
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In several school choice districts in the United States, the student proposing deferred acceptance algorithm is applied after indifferences in priority orders are broken in some exogenous way. Although such a tie-breaking procedure preserves stability, it adversely affects the welfare of the students since it introduces artificial stability constraints. Our main finding is a polynomial-time algorithm for the computation of a student-optimal stable matching when priorities are weak. The idea behind our construction relies on a new notion which we call a stable improvement cycle. We also investigate the strategic properties of the student-optimal stable mechanism. (JEL C78, D82, I21)

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Authors
Erdil, A., & Ergin, H.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2008-05-01
Volume
98
Issue
3
Pages
669-689
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.98.3.669
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W2116279087
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314
References
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journal article
Language
en
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