The portuguese high school match

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2015

Authors

António Neto (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Economics Bulletin

Vol. 35 No. 3

Pages: 1765-1771

ISSN: 1545-2921

Publisher: Economics Bulletin

Indexing

Scopus

Econlit

Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Economics and Business

CORDIS: Social sciences > Economics > Microeconomics

Other information

Abstract (EN): School Choice Theory is one of the research areas in Economics that has an immediate application to reality: every year, thousands of students around the world have to enroll at a new school. This paper introduces the Portuguese School Matching Algorithm and analyzes its main properties. I show that (a) the Portuguese algorithm can be described almost as the deferred-acceptance (DA) algorithm; (b) the constraint in terms of the number of schools parents can submit might harm the strategy-proof characteristic of the DA algorithm; (c) there are still several ways students can manipulate the system of priorities. Finally, I propose a new approach regarding the strategy-proof property by distinguishing between static-strategy-proof and dynamic-strategy-proof.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific