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SUMMARY:Prioritising Diversity in School Choice - Aytek Erdil (University 
 of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20121015T140000Z
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CONTACT:Felix Fischer
DESCRIPTION:Promoting diversity in schools has recently emerged as an impo
 rtant policy goal. Typically school choice programs take into account stud
 ent preferences and allocate scarce schools on the basis of priorities\, u
 sing stability as the solution concept. Therefore a notion of prioritizing
  diversity is essential. We introduce a rich class of priorities which cap
 ture intuitive notions of diversity.  Substitutable priorities with ties n
 ot only ensure existence of stable assignments\, but  also allow students 
 of same types to be treated equally. Moreover we describe an algorithm whi
 ch finds an optimal stable assignment.
LOCATION:MR12\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Camb
 ridge
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