Welfare of naive and sophisticated players in school choice

Apesteguia J, Ballester MA

Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2011) show that some naive participants may be better off under the Boston mechanism than under deferred acceptance. Here we show that under the veil of ignorance all naive students may prefer the Boston mechanism.

Keywords:

C7 D0 D6

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School choice

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Naive players

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Welfare

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Veil of ignorance