text:   Analysis of Affirmative Action Mechanisms",6,"['Excited about our new paper with Yuri Faenza and Xuan Zhang on ""Discovering Opportunities in New York City\'s Discovery Program"". Check it out here: <LINK> [1/n]', 'The Discovery Program is an affirmative action policy for admissions to the top specialized high schools in New York City. It has been instrumental in increasing the number of disadvantaged students admitted to top high schools. [2/n]', 'However, our analysis on past data from NY DOE shows that this program has (i) created ~950 in-group blocking pairs, impacting ~650 students yearly, (ii) created an incentive for top disadvantaged students to underperform! (lower performers matched to better  schools). [3/n]', 'In this work, we analyze to mechanisms, which minimally change the discovery program - Joint Seat Allocation (JSA) and Minority Reserve (MR). Both are weakly group-strategy proof and result in no in-group blocking pairs. [4/n]', 'We show that for ""highly competitive"" markets such as NY High Schools, JSA dominates MR. This leads to our proposal to DOE: use JSA instead of Discovery, to account for students\' preference of summer school seats as higher than general admissions seats.', '@XuanZhang816 !!']",22,03,1168