Matching and chatting: An experimental study of the impact of network communication on school-matching mechanisms

• Published in: Games and economic behavior Vol. 103; pp. 94 - 115
• Main Authors: Ding, Tingting, Schotter, Andrew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.05.2017
• Subjects: Chat; Matching; Mechanism design; Networks; School choice; Matching; Networks; School choice; C78; Mechanism design; Chat; C91; C72

While, in theory, the school matching problem is a static non-cooperative one-shot game, in reality the “matching game” is played by parents who choose their strategies after consulting or chatting with other parents in their social networks. In this paper we compare the performance of the Boston an...