What's the Matter with Tie-Breaking? Improving Efficiency in School Choice.
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 student...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2007
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