Matching for the Israeli "Mechinot" Gap-Year Programs: Handling Rich Diversity Requirements

Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Noam Nisan, Lisor Kovalio, Assaf Romm

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Abstract

We describe our experience with designing and running a matching market for the Israeli "Mechinot" gap-year programs. The main conceptual challenge in the design of this market was the rich set of diversity considerations, which necessitated the development of an appropriate preference-specification language along with corresponding choice-function semantics, which we also theoretically analyze to a certain extent. This market was run for the first time in January 2018 and matched 1,607 candidates (out of a total of 2,580 candidates) to 35 different programs, and has been adopted by the Joint Council of the "Mechinot" gap-year programs for the foreseeable future.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACM EC 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages321
Number of pages1
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Jun 2019
Event20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC 2019 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: 24 Jun 201928 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameACM EC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Conference

Conference20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period24/06/1928/06/19

Keywords

  • diversity constraints
  • gap-year programs
  • market design
  • matching

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