A dynamic school choice model
- Creators
- Pereyra, Juan Sebastián
Abstract
This paper considers a real-life assignment problem faced by the Mexican Ministry of Public Education. Inspired by this situation, we introduce a dynamic school choice problem that consists in assigning positions to overlapping generations of teachers. From one period to another, agents are allowed either to retain their current position or to choose a preferred one. In this framework, a solution concept that conciliates the fairness criteria with the individual rationality condition is introduced. It is then proved that a fair matching always exists and that it can be reached by a modified version of the deferred acceptance algorithm of Gale and Shapley. We also show that the mechanism is dynamic strategy-proof, and respects improvements whenever the set of orders is lexicographic by tenure.
Additional Information
This paper constitutes the first chapter of my Ph.D dissertation at El Colegio de Mexico. It is written under the supervision of David Cantala within the CONACYT project 62188. I am also grateful to Jordi Massso, Szilvia Papai, Federico Echenique, Christine Daley, Kaniska Dam, Alexander Elbittar, Rafael Treibich, Francis Bloch, Emerson Melo, SangMok Lee, Fuhito Kojima, Edwin van Gameren, Juan Gabriel Brida, Juliana Xavier, Andres Sambarino and Rodrigo Velez for their comments and suggestions and the seminar participants at Ecole Polytechnique, Economics Department at Universidad de la Republica de Uruguay and El Colegio de Mexico for discussions. All errors are my responsibility. Published as Pereyra, Juan Sebastián. "A dynamic school choice model." Games and economic behavior 80 (2013): 100-114.Attached Files
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- 83766
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20171208-153020150
- 62188
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)
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2017-12-20Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2019-10-03Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Social Science Working Papers
- Series Name
- Social Science Working Paper
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 1347