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Implementing Quotas in University Admissions: An Experimental AnalysisSebastian BraunKiel Institute for the World Economy - IFW Nadja DwengerMax Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance Dorothea KüblerSocial Science Research Center (WZB); Technical University of Berlin - Faculty of Economics and Management; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Alexander WestkampInstitut für Mikroökonomik December 28, 2011 Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2011-22 Abstract: Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mechanism currently employed by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions, which first allocates seats in the quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version of the student-proposing deferred acceptance (SDA) algorithm, which simultaneously allocates seats in all quotas. Our main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 48 Keywords: college admissions, experiment, quotas, matching, Gale-Shapley mechanism, Boston mechanism JEL Classification: C78, C92, D78, I20 working papers seriesDate posted: December 28, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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