Replication data for: What's the Matter with Tie-Breaking? Improving Efficiency in School Choice

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Project Citation:

Erdil, Aytek, and Ergin, Haluk. Replication data for: What’s the Matter with Tie-Breaking? Improving Efficiency in School Choice. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2008. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113247V1

Project Description

Summary: In several school choice districts in the United States, the student proposing deferred acceptance algorithm is applied after indifferences in priority orders are broken in some exogenous way. Although such a tie-breaking procedure preserves stability, it adversely affects the welfare of the students since it introduces artificial stability constraints. Our main finding is a polynomial-time algorithm for the computation of a student-optimal stable matching when priorities are weak. The idea behind our construction relies on a new notion which we call a stable improvement cycle. We also investigate the strategic properties of the student-optimal stable mechanism.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I28 Education: Government Policy
      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I21 Analysis of Education

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