第638期岭南学术论坛（经济学系列Seminar）

报告题目：Two-stage Chinese College Admission

报  告  人：张军 (南京审计大学经济学院 教授)

主  持  人：徐欣毅（中山大学岭南学院 助理教授）

时        间：2023年3月17日（周五）下午14:30

地        点：岭南堂汪道涵会议室

语        言：中文 + 英文

摘要：

The college admission system of China has used a two-stage procedure for decades: the first stage sends each student’s application to at most one college; the second stage assigns each college’s applicants to its majors. Students who are rejected in the second stage cannot go back to the first stage to apply for other colleges, which incentivizes students to accept options called major transfer in their rank-order lists.  This incentive can distort students’ preferences and cause strategic reports. We demonstrate the deficiencies of the two-stage procedure and for the currently used procedure called Chinese Parallel Mechanism (CPM) we propose an improvement (RPM) by combining the two stages into one stage. We also document the most recent reform in the system and notice that a new mechanism (IPM) that essentially runs the deferred acceptance algorithm has been used by some provinces of China. However, most provinces still prefer CPM over IPM, which is probably because they want to avoid radical changes in the reform. We run lab experiments to compare the three mechanisms (CPM, RPM, IPM). Experiments support RPM as an appealing mechanism for both students and colleges and as a practical solution for provinces: the three mechanisms are close in efficiency, while RPM lies between IPM and CPM in fairness; RPM corrects students’ incentive regarding major transfer options, and avoids cutoff diversification of majors within a college relative to IPM; RPM is a minimalist redesign of CPM.

简介：

        张军，博士，南京审计大学经济学院教授，致力于市场设计的理论及应用研究，近年在American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior，Economic Theory等国际期刊上发表多篇论文。获国家自然科学基金优秀青年项目、青年项目资助，2021年中国信息经济学会乌家培资助计划。

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