Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones
Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones
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DOI：
10.1086/699974
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Sonmez, Tayfun
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作者：
Dur, Umut;Kominers, Scott Duke;Sonmez, Tayfun
我们表明，在招生储备的存在下，优先顺序的效果（即，不同类别席位的填补顺序）与调整储备规模的效果相当。无论是降低优先级的储备席位在一所学校或增加学校的储备规模微弱增加储备组分配在该学校。使用波士顿公立学校的数据，我们表明，储备和优先调整有类似的量化效果。关于这些问题的透明度，特别是优先权如何无意中破坏了预期的政策，导致了波士顿公立学校比赛中步行区保留区的取消。
We show that in the presence of admissions reserves, the effect of the precedence order (i.e., the order in which different types of seats are filled) is comparable to the effect of adjusting reserve sizes. Either lowering the precedence of reserve seats at a school or increasing the school's reserve size weakly increases reserve-group assignment at that school. Using data from Boston Public Schools, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Transparency about these issues-in particular, how precedence unintentionally undermined intended policy-led to the elimination of walk zone reserves in Boston's public school match.