Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45443 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 0804
Publisher: 
TÜSİAD-Koç University Economic Research Forum, Istanbul
Abstract: 
A central authority designs and implements the college admissions process in Turkey. All applicants are required to take an SAT-like test and submit their preferences over the departments. Then, the central authority places the applicants in departments by considering the test scores and stated preferences of the applicants and the capacities of the departments. This procedure generates a fair placement if there are no restrictions on stating preferences. However, the applicants are restricted to state preferences over at most 24 departments out of 4022 available departments. In this paper, by using the college admissions data set of the year 2005, we estimate that the number of applicants who had an unfair placement due to this restriction is equivalent to 2.4 percent of the number of applicants who placed in a department.
JEL: 
I23
I28
C78
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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