Research on Chinese College Admission Mechanism

Abstract

College admission mechanism has been widely studied both theoretically and empirically for decades. Chinese education market with the largest population of students and number of colleges, comparing to all the other education markets, is definitely unique, typical, and can contribute diversity and richness to the studies of industry. However, few data set and research can be found that try to use tools of market design studying this particular centralized system, not even to mention how to improve it. This paper look at properties of other famous mechanism including student-optimal mechanism, Boston mechanism and top trading mechanism, and compare them with Chinese Parallel mechanism. This article also incorporates a new property introduced by Hatfield, Kojima, and Narita about the incentives for college to improve into consideration. In the future, this paper can bring attention to the authority, therefore attracting more diagnosis and analysis.