Klijn, FlipPais, JoanaVorsatz, Marc2022-10-312022-10-312016Klijn, Flip, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsat. (2016). “Affirmative action through minority reserves: an experimental study on school choice”. Economics Letters, Vol. 139, pp. 72-75. (Search PDF in 2022)0165-1765http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/25867Minority reserves are an affirmative action policy proposed by Hafalir et al. (2013) in the context of school choice. In a laboratory experiment, we find that adding minority reserves to the GS and TTC mechanisms has positive effects on stability but is quite disappointing in terms of efficiency. Also GS induces higher rates of truth-telling by minority students and thus outclasses TTCengAffirmative ActionMinority ReservesSchool ChoiceDeferred AcceptanceTop Trading Cyclesjournal article10.1016/j.econlet.2015.12.018 0165-1765