The modified Boston mechanism

Umut Dur

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 101, issue C, 31-40

Abstract: Many school districts in the U.S. assign students to schools via the Boston mechanism. The Boston mechanism is not strategy-proof, and it is easy to manipulate. We slightly modify the Boston mechanism and show that the modified version outperforms the Boston mechanism in terms of strategy-proofness. In particular, the Boston mechanism is manipulable whenever the modified version is, but the modified version is not necessarily manipulable whenever the Boston mechanism is. We define a weaker form of consistency and characterize the modified Boston mechanism by this weaker form and a new axiom called respect of priority of the top-ranking students.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2018.08.004

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