Causal Effects in Matching Mechanisms with Strategically Reported Preferences.

Autor/inn/en	Bertanha, Marinho; Luflade, Margaux; Mourifié, Ismael
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Causal Effects in Matching Mechanisms with Strategically Reported Preferences.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research (2024) PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w32434
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Schätzung; Bildungsniveau; Bildungsertrag; Asymmetrische Information; Ökonometrie; Hochschule; Arbeitspapier; Matching; Student; Information; Chile
Abstract	A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically misreport their preferences. In this paper, we provide an approach for identifying the causal effects of school assignment on future outcomes that accounts for strategic misreporting. Misreporting may invalidate existing point-identification approaches, and we derive sharp bounds for causal effects that are robust to strategic behavior. Our approach applies to any mechanism as long as there exist placement scores and cutoffs that characterize that mechanism's allocation rule. We use data from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile. Matching theory predicts that students' behavior in Chile should be strategic because they can list only up to eight options, and we find empirical evidence consistent with such behavior. Our bounds are informative enough to reveal significant heterogeneity in graduation success with respect to preferences and school assignment.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2024/3