Priority design for engineering colleges in India
Indian Economic Review, cilt.58, ss.5-15, 2023 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 58
- Basım Tarihi: 2023
- Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s41775-023-00162-3
- Dergi Adı: Indian Economic Review
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Periodicals Index Online, EconLit, Food Science & Technology Abstracts
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.5-15
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Affirmative action, De-reservation, India, Market design, Reserve systems
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
India has implemented the most comprehensive affirmative action program since 1950 via a reservation system. The Supreme Court of India (SCI) granted 27% reservation to the members of Other Backward Classes (OBC) in Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (2008). In the same decision, the SCI enacted the OBC de-reservation policy, according to which unfilled OBC positions must be provided to others. The lack of a well-defined de-reservation policy in SCI’s decision has led to the implementation of ad-hoc de-reservation procedures with inferior theoretical and practical properties. Aygün and Turhan (Manag Sci, Forthcoming, 2022) propose the backward transfer choice rule to implement OBC de-reservations. This paper introduces a new choice rule that is computationally simpler than the backward transfer choice rule, yet it is outcome equivalent. We further discuss cutoff scores induced by these choice rules.