Sophisticated Students in Boston Mechanism and Gale-Shapley Algorithm for School Choice Problem

Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 24 Sept 2024CoRR 2021EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: We present our experimental results of simulating the school choice problem which deals with the assignment of students to schools based on each group's complete preference list for the other group using two algorithms: Boston mechanism and student-proposing Gale-Shapley algorithm. We compare the effects of sophisticated students altering their preference lists with regards to these two algorithms. Our simulation results show that sophisticated students can benefit more in Boston mechanism compared to Gale-Shapley algorithm based on multiple evaluation metrics.
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