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| Title: | | Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental investigation  |
| Authors: | | Braun, Sebastian Dwenger, Nadja Kübler, Dorothea Westkamp, Alexander |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Kiel Working Papers 1761 |
| Abstract: | | Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mechanism currently employed by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions, which first allocates seats in the quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version of the student-proposing deferred acceptance (SDA) algorithm, which simultaneously allocates seats in all quotas. Our main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany. |
| Subjects: | | college admissions experiment quotas matching Gale-Shapley mechanism Boston mechanism |
| JEL: | | C78 C92 D78 I20 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des IfW Kieler Arbeitspapiere, IfW
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