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Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions

Kala Krishna

出版	National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1kGA0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

College admissions in many countries are based on a centrally administered test. Applicants invest a great deal of resources to improve their performance on the test, and there is growing concern about the large costs associated with these activities. We consider modifying such tests by introducing performance-disclosure policies that pool intervals of performance rankings, and investigate how such policies can improve students' welfare in a Pareto sense. Pooling affects the equilibrium allocation of studentso colleges, which hurts some students and benefits others, but also affects the effort students exert. We characterize the Pareto frontier of Pareto improving policies, and also identify improvements that are robust to the distribution of college seats.