Stable Matching Mechanisms under Distributional Constraints

Yao Cheng and Zaifu Yang

Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of York

Abstract: Motivated by the Chinese doctors, hospitals, and regions matching problem, we study a general matching model with complex distributional constraints. Every hospital faces its floor and ceiling constraints on the number of doctors, and every region which has several hospitals also faces its floor and ceiling constraints on the number of doctors. We examine how to assign doctors to hospitals and regions in an efficient, fair, stable, and strategy-proof way. We propose two mechanisms for finding such solutions and explore their properties.

Keywords: Matching; distributional constraints; efficiency; fairness; incentive; stability. %strategy-proofness. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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