Affirmative action through minority reserves: An experimental study on school choice

Flip Klijn, Joana Pais () and Marc Vorsatz

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 139, issue C, 72-75

Abstract: Minority reserves are an affirmative action policy proposed by Hafalir et al. (2013) in the context of school choice. In a laboratory experiment, we find that adding minority reserves to the GS and TTC mechanisms has positive effects on stability but is quite disappointing in terms of efficiency. Also GS induces higher rates of truth-telling by minority students and thus outclasses TTC.

Keywords: Affirmative action; Minority reserves; School choice; Deferred acceptance; Top trading cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 C91 C92 D78 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.12.018

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