Responsive affirmative action in school choice: A comparison study Academic Article

abstract

• 2019 Elsevier B.V. This note provides a comparison study on responsiveness of two extensively used mechanisms to affirmative action in school choice. For priority-based affirmative action, we show that, if a stronger priority-based affirmative action favors minority students by giving full priority to the minority, then such a policy makes each minority student weakly better off under the student-proposing deferred acceptance (henceforth, DA)mechanism. However, the top trading cycles (henceforth, TTC)mechanism does not satisfy this property. Under the DA mechanism, if the original problem gives full priority to the minority, then the assignment of minority students does not change when the problem moves to a higher level of affirmative action. On the contrary, this property does not hold under the TTC mechanism.

authors

• Tian, Guoqiang

published proceedings

• Economics Letters

author list (cited authors)

• Jiao, Z., & Tian, G.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Jiao, Zhenhua||Tian, Guoqiang

publication date

• January 2019

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Economics Letters  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.05.024

start page

• 140

end page

• 145

volume

• 181

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2019.05.024