The Boston Public School Match
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...…and Tayfun Sönmez (2003) advocated a variation of the same algorithm for use by school choice programs, a similar centralized match was adopted by the New York City schools (Abdulkadiroğlu et al., 2005b) and another is being evaluated by the Boston schools (Abdulkadiroğlu et al., 2005a)....
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...5 See Sönmez and Ünver (2011) for a survey treatment and Chen and Sönmez (2002), Abdulkadiroğlu, Pathak, and Roth (2005), and Abdulkadiroğlu et al. (2005) on applications to housing markets and school choice....
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...…in the large and that have been shown to have important incentive problems in practice include nonstable matching algorithms (cf. Roth 2002), the Boston mechanism for school choice (Abdulkadiroğlu, Pathak, and Roth 2005), and discriminatory price multiunit auctions (e.g., Friedman 1991)....
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...In contrast, a primary feature of school choice in NYC and in other cities including Boston (in which a new design was implemented in 2006, see Abdulkadiro ̆ glu et al. 2005, 2006) is that there are indifferences—ties—in how students are ordered by at least some schools....
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"The Boston Public School Match" refers background in this paper
...Many properties of TTC carry over to school choice, including Pareto efficiency (Shapley and Scarf, 1974) and dominant-strategy incentive compatibility (Roth, 1982b)....
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"The Boston Public School Match" refers background in this paper
...York City high schools (Abdulkadiroğlu et al., 2005) and elsewhere (Roth, 2002): Step 1....
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...However, if welfare considerations apply only to students, there is tension between stability and Pareto optimality (Roth, 1982a)....
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...Moreover all students prefer their outcome to any other stable matching (Gale and Shapley, 1962), and the induced student-optimal stable mechanism is dominantstrategy incentive-compatible (Roth, 1982a)....
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...Many properties of TTC carry over to school choice, including Pareto efficiency (Shapley and Scarf, 1974) and dominant-strategy incentive compatibility (Roth, 1982b)....
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