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| Title: | | Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis  |
| Authors: | | Kübler, Dorothea Braun, Sebastian Dwenger, Nadja Westkamp, Alexander |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012: Neue Wege und Herausforderungen für den Arbeitsmarkt des 21. Jahrhunderts - Session: Mechanisms D07-V2 |
| 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 fi rst mechanism is a simplifi ed 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 modifi ed 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 modi ed SDA algorithm signifi cantly improves the matching for top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany. |
| JEL: | | C78 C92 I20 |
| Document Type: | | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012 (Göttingen): Neue Wege und Herausforderungen für den Arbeitsmarkt des 21. Jh.
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