Reducing the role of random numbers in matching algorithms for school admission
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Keywords
college admission problem; deferred acceptance algorithm; Boston algorithm; Zeeburg algorithm; pairwise exchange algorithm; strategic behaviour;All these keywords.
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- I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CMP-2016-04-09 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-CMP-2016-04-23 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2016-04-09 (Game Theory)
- NEP-GTH-2016-04-23 (Game Theory)
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