… The Boston mechanism is not strategy-proof, and it is easy to manipulate. We … modify the
Boston mechanism and show that the modified version outperforms the Boston mechanism in …

… mechanism that is a hybrid of the two most common mechanisms in school choice, the Boston
Mechanism (BM) and the … We introduce a modified version of the most widely used student …

… As in the case of the Boston mechanism, this modified version also induces a non-trivial
preference revelation game. We need an additional definition in order to characterize …

… Instead, I propose BM to be partially modified so as to diminish the … the way I suggest has
negligible implementation costs, as compared to the replacement policy once applied in Boston…

… the Boston mechanism outcome for every priority order. Our main result shows that a mechanism
is outcome equivalent to the Boston mechanism at … By slightly modifying the proof of the …

… goes into operation, it should become possible to draw stronger conclusions about future
modifications to the system, as it becomes safe for families to report their true preferences, so …

… the empirical case against the previous Boston mechanism, a priority matching mechanism,
and the case in favor of the … 12The only changes have been minor modifications to a handful …

… , we first study the traditional (naıve) Boston mechanism (NBM) in a … the strategyproof Random
Serial Dictatorship (RSD). We then formalize an adaptive variant of the Boston mechanism …

… set of stable matchings of a modified economy where sincere students lose their priorities
to sophisticated students. This result implies that there exists a Nash equilibrium outcome …

… The modification of BOS that we propose proceeds from the same idea as that introduced by
Sönmez and Ünver (2010) in the … bidding mechanism whose particularity is to separate the …