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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2026
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
QBS Working Paper No. 2026/03
Verlag: 
Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School, Belfast
Zusammenfassung: 
We conduct the first laboratory school choice experiment in which parents - the relevant decision makers in the field - are the experimental subjects.We compare Deferred Acceptance (DA) with two manipulable but potentially more efficient alternatives: Efficiency-Adjusted Deferred Acceptance (EADA) and the Rank-Minimizing mechanism (RM). We find that all mechanisms are frequently manipulated, with no significant differences in truth-telling rates. Parents and students manipulate at similar rates, supporting the external validity of student-based experiments, though students make significantly more obvious errors, suggesting parents' deviations are more deliberate. Despite widespread manipulation, the predicted welfare-stability tradeoff largely survives: DA never produces Pareto-efficient allocations yet generates little justified envy; whereas RM delivers substantial efficiency gains at a meaningful stability cost. EADA occupies a middle ground: its efficiency gains over DA are modest and imprecisely estimated yet double justified envy. Higher cognitive ability is associated with more deviations, and under EADA with worse outcomes. While DA does not induce truth-telling, it is the only mechanism in which manipulation never pays off and rarely changes outcomes.
Schlagwörter: 
school choice
experiments
parents
efficiency-adjusted DA
rank-minimizing
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