Implementing quotas in university admissions. An experimental investigation.

Autor/inn/en	Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Westkamp, Alexander
Titel	Implementing quotas in university admissions. An experimental investigation.
Quelle	Kiel: Kiel Inst. for the World Economy (2012), 41 S., 527 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Kiel working paper. 1761
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Angebot; Nachfrage; Studienfach; Hochschule; Arbeitspapier; Quote; Regulation; Student; Deutschland
Abstract	Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mechanism currently employed by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions, which first allocates seats in the quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version of the student-proposing deferred acceptance (SDA) algorithm, which simultaneously allocates seats in all quotas. Our main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2012/3