By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Education Letter -- Fresh data on Education - School Choice are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, “This paper investigates the responsiveness of priority-based affirmative action in school choice.”

Funders for this research include Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Ministry of Education of China.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the School of Business, “We consider two efficiency-improved mechanisms Kesten’s EADAM (efficiency-adjusted deferred acceptance mechanism) and DA-TTC mechanism (running deferred acceptance and then running top trading cycles algorithm). We show that neither EADAM nor DA-TTC is minimally responsive to the priority-based affirmative action policy.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “That is, under EADAM or DA-TTC, there are market situations in which a stronger affirmative action policy may result in a Pareto inferior assignment for the minority students.”

For more information on this research see: Two further impossibility results on responsive affirmative action in school choice. Economics Letters , 2018;166():60-62. Economics Letters can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Sa, PO Box 564, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Economics Letters - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/economics-letters/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Z.H. Jiao, Shanghai Univ Int Business & Econ, Sch Business, Shanghai 201620, People’s Republic of China.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.02.020. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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CITATION: (2018-05-09), Data on School Choice Reported by Researchers at School of Business (Two further impossibility results on responsive affirmative action in school choice), Education Letter, 52, ISSN: 1938-1859, BUTTER® ID: 015633984

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