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econ.TH2026

School Choice with Appeals

Claudia Cerrone, Yoan Hermstrüwer, Josué Ortega

Roughly fifty thousand families in England appeal their school assignments each year through a centralized and understudied procedure that improves the placement of about one in fi…

cs.GT2026

Efficiency Adjustments Break the Logarithmic Rank Barrier

Josue Ortega, Geng Zhao, Gabriel Ziegler

We study the expected average rank achieved by the Efficiency-Adjusted Deferred Acceptance (EADA) mechanism in i.i.d.\ matching markets. While student-proposing Deferred Acceptance…

econ.TH2026

Asymptotic Equivalence of Immediate and Deferred Acceptance

Josue Ortega

Immediate Acceptance (IA, also known as the Boston mechanism) is commonly used to assign students to schools because it produces a Pareto-efficient matching if parents report their…

econ.TH2026

Justifiable Priority Violations

Josué Ortega, R. Pablo Arribillaga

Making Deferred Acceptance more efficient requires priority violations, but which ones are justifiable? We argue that a priority can be justifiably violated if the affected student…

econ.GN2026

Experimental School Choice with Parents

Mikhail Freer, Thilo Klein, Josué Ortega

We conduct the first laboratory school choice experiment in which parents-the relevant decision makers in the field-are the experimental subjects. We compare Deferred Acceptance (D…

econ.TH2026★ 1 cited

The Distribution of Envy in Matching Markets

Josué Ortega, Gabriel Ziegler, R. Pablo Arribillaga +1

We study the distribution of envy in random matching markets under the Deferred Acceptance (DA) algorithm. Using tools from applied probability, we compute the expected number of p…

econ.TH2025

What Pareto-Efficiency Adjustments Cannot Fix

Josue Ortega, Gabriel Ziegler, R. Pablo Arribillaga +1

The Deferred Acceptance (DA) algorithm is stable and strategy-proof, but can produce outcomes that are Pareto-inefficient for students, and thus several alternative mechanisms have…

econ.TH2025

The Trade-off Between Minimal Instability and Larger Improvements over Deferred Acceptance

Taylor Knipe, Josue Ortega

The celebrated Efficiency-Adjusted Deferred Acceptance mechanism (EADA) improves the efficiency of the DA algorithm via consented priority violations. Notwithstanding its many meri…

econ.TH2024

The Large and Likely Inefficiency of Stable Matching Mechanisms

Josue Ortega, Gabriel Ziegler, R. Pablo Arribillaga +1

We prove that any stable matching mechanism suffers from systematic inefficiency of striking magnitude: in large random markets, any stable allocation is Pareto-inefficient with hi…