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What is Cadet-branch matching about?
Prior to 2006, the United States Military Academy (USMA) matched cadets to military specialties (branches) using a single category ranking system to determine priority. Since 2006, priority for the last 25 percent of the slots at each branch has been given to cadets who sign a branch-of-choice contract committing to serve in the Army for three additional years. Building on theoretical work of Hatfield and Milgrom (2005) and Hatfield and Kojima (2010), Sönmez and Switzer (2013) show that the resulting new matching problem not only has practical importance but also it fills a gap in the market design literature. Even though the new branch priorities designed by the Department of the Army fail a substitutes condition, the cumulative offer algorithm of Hatfield-Milgrom gives a cadet-optimal stable outcome in this environment. The resulting mechanism restores a number of important properties to the current USMA mechanism including stability, strategy-proofness and fairness which not only increase cadet welfare consistent with OCSP goals but also provides the Army with very accurate estimates of the effect of a change in the parameters of the mechanism on number of man-year gains by the
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- Author
- Sönmez, Tayfun
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery; Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (ISSN 1551-9031)
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)