9 papers
Affirmative Action in India with Hierarchical Reservations
Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan
India implements the world's most complex affirmative action program through vertical and horizontal reservations. Although applicants can belong to at most one vertical category,…
Inconsistency of Score-Elevated Reserve Policy for Indian Affirmative Action
Orhan Aygn, Bertan Turhan
India has enacted an intricate affirmative action program through a reservation system since the 1950s. Notably, in 2008, a historic judgment by the Supreme Court of India (SCI) in…
Matching with Generalized Sequential Choice Rules
Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan
This paper studies a many-to-one matching between individuals and institutions where institutions comprise multiple divisions and face cross-divisional constraints. We introduce a…
The Over-and-Above Implementation of Reserve Policy in India
Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan
The over-and-above choice rule is the prominent selection procedure to implement affirmative action. In India, it is legally mandated to allocate public school seats and government…
How to De-Reserves Reserves: Admissions to Technical Colleges in India
Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan
We study joint implementation of reservation and de-reservation policies in India that has been enforcing a comprehensive affirmative action since 1950. The landmark judgement of t…
Assignment Maximization
Mustafa Oğuz Afacan, Inácio Bó, Bertan Turhan
We evaluate the goal of maximizing the number of individuals matched to acceptable outcomes. We show that it implies incentive, fairness, and implementation impossibilities. Despit…
Dynamic Reserves in Matching Markets
Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan
We study a school choice problem under affirmative action policies where authorities reserve a certain fraction of the slots at each school for specific student groups, and where s…
Slot-specific Priorities with Capacity Transfers
Michelle Avataneo, Bertan Turhan
In many real-world matching applications, there are restrictions for institutions either on priorities of their slots or on the transferability of unfilled slots over others (or bo…
Matching with Generalized Lexicographic Choice Rules
Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan
Motivated by the need for real-world matching problems, this paper formulates a large class of practical choice rules, Generalized Lexicographic Choice Rules (GLCR), for institutio…