Affirmative actions: The Boston mechanism case

Mustafa Afacan and Umutcan Salman ()

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 141, issue C, 95-97

Abstract: We consider three popular affirmative action policies in school choice: quota-based, priority-based, and reserve-based affirmative actions. The Boston mechanism (BM) is responsive to the latter two policies in that a stronger priority-based or reserve-based affirmative action makes some minority student better off. However, a stronger quota-based affirmative action may yield a Pareto inferior outcome for the minority under the BM. These positive results disappear once we look for a stronger welfare consequence on the minority or focus on BM equilibrium outcomes.

Keywords: Boston mechanism; Affirmative actions; Minority; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C70 D61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.02.014

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