What could be a dynamical centralized college admission system in Russia

N. Kalinin and A. Kuz'mina
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N. Kalinin: Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, China
A. Kuz'mina: Yandex, Moscow, Russia

Journal of the New Economic Association, 2024, vol. 62, issue 1, 101-115

Abstract: University admission process in Russia was quite risky for college entrants in 2021-2022. Many participants could not be sure that they are admitted to a program until the very end of admission process. In this policy paper, we describe a dynamic version of the Gale-Shapley algorithm and study its rate of convergence. The proposed model of admission system imposes no risks on participants after they compose a preference list of universities. So, participants can decide where to submit their applications relying on their true preferences. Each participant may be sure that she/he will be proposed a place in a particular university before the other participants with lower grades. For a practical realisation the rate of convergence of an admission algorithm is very important. We provide analysis of a modelling of the proposed algorithm on a synthetic data and discuss what may be the problem cases in real life implementation and how to guarantee faster convergence in these cases.

Keywords: education; university admission; Gale-Shapley algorithm; mechanism design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D71 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.31737/22212264_2024_1_101-115

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