Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129274 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IWH Discussion Papers No. 3/2016
Publisher: 
Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH), Halle (Saale)
Abstract: 
We use rich microeconomic data on performance and choices of students at college entry to study the interaction between the revelation of college preferences through exams and the selection of allocation mechanisms. We propose a method in which preferences and expectations of students are identified from data on choices and multiple exam grades. Counterfactuals we consider balance costs arising from congestion and exam organization. Moving to deferred acceptance or inverting the timing of choices and exams are shown to increase welfare. Redistribution among students or schools is sizeable in all counterfactual experiments.
Subjects: 
education
two-sided matching
school allocation mechanism
policy evaluation
JEL: 
C57
D47
I21
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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