Suboptimal Behavior in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms: Evidence from the Residency Match

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Rees-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Strategy Proof ◽  
Suboptimal Behavior ◽  
Residency Match

scholarly journals An experimental investigation of preference misrepresentation in the residency match

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (45) ◽  
pp. 11471-11476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Rees-Jones ◽  
Samuel Skowronek
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Market Design ◽  
Field Application ◽  
Matching Task ◽  
Medical Residency ◽  
Strategic Positioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategy Proof ◽  
Residency Match

The development and deployment of matching procedures that incentivize truthful preference reporting is considered one of the major successes of market design research. In this study, we test the degree to which these procedures succeed in eliminating preference misrepresentation. We administered an online experiment to 1,714 medical students immediately after their participation in the medical residency match—a leading field application of strategy-proof market design. When placed in an analogous, incentivized matching task, we find that 23% of participants misrepresent their preferences. We explore the factors that predict preference misrepresentation, including cognitive ability, strategic positioning, overconfidence, expectations, advice, and trust. We discuss the implications of this behavior for the design of allocation mechanisms and the social welfare in markets that use them.

Strategy-proof mechanism for online resource allocation in cloud and edge collaboration

Computing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jixian Zhang ◽  
Laixin Chi ◽  
Ning Xie ◽  
Xutao Yang ◽  
Xuejie Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Online Resource ◽  
Strategy Proof

scholarly journals Home Field Advantage: Assessing the Geographic Trends of the Plastic Surgery Residency Match during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Armand Asadourian ◽  
Alexander I. Murphy ◽  
Andrew Marano ◽  
Christine Hsu Rohde ◽  
June K. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Home Field Advantage ◽  
Residency Match

Strategy-proof exchange under trichotomous preferences

2021 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 105197
Author(s):  
Vikram Manjunath ◽  
Alexander Westkamp
Keyword(s):  
Strategy Proof
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