2020/04/27 by Orhan Aygün, Aygün, Orhan, Bertan Turhan +1
Social Sciences · #FOS: Economics and business #Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies #Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.13264
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Since 1950, India has been implementing the most comprehensive affirmative\naction program in the world. Vertical reservations are provided to members of\nhistorically discriminated Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and\nOther Backward Classes (OBC). Horizontal reservations are provided for other\ndisadvantaged groups, such as women and disabled people, within each vertical\ncategory. There is no well-defined procedure to implement horizontal\nreservations jointly with vertical reservation and OBC de-reservations.\nSequential processes currently in use for OBC de-reservations and meritorious\nreserve candidates lead to severe shortcomings. Most importantly, indirect\nmechanisms currently used in practice do not allow reserve category applicants\nto fully express their preferences. To overcome these and other related issues,\nwe design several different choice rules for institutions that take\nmeritocracy, vertical and horizontal reservations, and OBC de-reservations into\naccount. We propose a centralized mechanism to satisfactorily clear matching\nmarkets in India.\n