a paper on the diversity-meritocracy tradeoff

[M. Bumin Yenmez]

Dear All, 

Isa Hafalir, Fuhito Kojima, Koji Yokote, and I recently completed a paper on the diversity meritocracy tradeoff. It's mostly a choice-theoretic study. We use discrete convex analysis and matroid theory and also establish new results in these fields. 

You can find our paper on Arxiv:

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.00237

The abstract of our paper is as follows:    "We provide optimal solutions to an institution that has dual goals of diversity and meritocracy when choosing from a set of applications. For example, in college admissions, administrators may want to admit a diverse class in addition to choosing students with the highest qualifications. We provide a class of choice rules that maximize merit subject to attaining a diversity level. Using this class, we find all subsets of applications on the diversity-merit Pareto frontier. In addition, we provide two novel characterizations of matroids."

Please let us know if you have any comments.

Best,

-bumin

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M. Bumin Yenmez

Professor of Economics

Boston College

https://sites.bc.edu/bumin-yenmez/