Authors: Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz
Economics Letters, Vol. 139, No 1, 72-75, February, 2016Minority reserves are an affirmative action policy proposed by Hafalir et al. (2013) in the context of school choice. In a laboratory experiment, we find that adding minority reserves to the GS and TTC mechanisms has positive effects on stability but is quite disappointing in terms of efficiency. Also GS induces higher rates of truth-telling by minority students and thus outclasses TTC.
This paper originally appeared as
Barcelona School of Economics Working Paper 752