Affirmative Action Policies in School Choice: Immediate versus Deferred Acceptance

Muntasir Chaudhury () and Szilvia Pápai ()

No 25001, Working Papers from Concordia University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We study three basic welfare axioms for school choice mechanisms with a reserve or quota-based affirmative action policy, namely non-wastefulness, respecting the affirmative action policy, and minimal responsiveness, and show that none of the previously proposed mechanisms satisfy all of them. We demonstrate that, together with an essential fairness requirement, these three welfare axioms are compatible by constructing a new mechanism which issues immediate acceptances to minority students for minority reserve seats and otherwise uses deferred acceptance. We analyze compatibilities, tradeoffs and implications concerning the three basic welfare axioms, fairness, and incentive properties.

Keywords: school choice; affirmative action; minority reserves; minimal responsiveness; deferred acceptance; immediate acceptance; fairness; strategyproofness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D47 D63 D78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2024-05-17, Revised 2025-01-10
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