Priority design for engineering colleges in India

Orhan Aygün () and Bertan Turhan
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Orhan Aygün: Bogazici University

Indian Economic Review, 2023, vol. 58, issue 1, No 2, 5-15

Abstract: Abstract India has implemented the most comprehensive affirmative action program since 1950 via a reservation system. The Supreme Court of India (SCI) granted 27% reservation to the members of Other Backward Classes (OBC) in Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (2008). In the same decision, the SCI enacted the OBC de-reservation policy, according to which unfilled OBC positions must be provided to others. The lack of a well-defined de-reservation policy in SCI’s decision has led to the implementation of ad-hoc de-reservation procedures with inferior theoretical and practical properties. Aygün and Turhan (Manag Sci, Forthcoming, 2022) propose the backward transfer choice rule to implement OBC de-reservations. This paper introduces a new choice rule that is computationally simpler than the backward transfer choice rule, yet it is outcome equivalent. We further discuss cutoff scores induced by these choice rules.

Keywords: Reserve systems; De-reservation; Affirmative action; India; Market design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D47 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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