Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144912 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2016/8
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper experimentally studies an essential institutional feature of matching markets: Randomization of allocation priorities. I compare single and multiple randomization in the student assignment problem with ties. The Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm is employed after indifferences in school priorities are resolved by either random procedure. The main result is that a significant fraction of individuals prefers multiple to single randomization, although both are equivalent in expectation. Multiple randomization is perceived to be fairer. One theoretical explanation is the failure to disregard compound lotteries. These results show that random procedures are not inherently neutral with respect to preferences and fairness perceptions.
Subjects: 
market design
school choice
mechanism design
experiment
deferred acceptance algorithm
randomization
tie-breaking
JEL: 
C78
C91
D78
D81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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