Working Papers


“Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Theory” (with Tayfun Sönmez) to appear as Chapter 1 of the Handbook of the Economics of Matching, Volume 1 (Elsevier) edited by Yeon-Koo Che, Pierre-Andre Chiaporri, and Bernard Salanie
[ April 2024: WP ]

  • MATCHING
  • MARKET DESIGN
  • SURVEY CHAPTER

“Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Applications” (with Tayfun Sönmez) to appear as Chapter 3 of the Handbook of the Economics of Matching, Volume 1 (Elsevier) edited by Yeon-Koo Che, Pierre-Andre Chiaporri, and Bernard Salanie
[ March 2024: WP ]

  • MATCHING
  • MARKET DESIGN
  • SURVEY CHAPTER

“Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools.” Revision requested at American Economic Review (with Julien Combe, Umut M. Dur, Olivier Tercieux, and Camille Terrier).
[ Feb. 2022: WP ]

  • DISTRIBUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS
  • REMATCHING
  • MARKET DESIGN
  • MECHANISM DESIGN
  • EMPIRICS

“Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: Theory and Application.” (with Xiang Han, Onur Kesten) Revision requested at American Economic Review
[ New Draft – May 2024 SSRN ] [ June 2021 WP ] [ Slides ] [ video present.: long | short ]

  • Refereed proceeding publication of its extended abstract:
    EC ’21: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (2021) 585-586.
    [ Proceeding]
  • DISCRETE EXCHANGE
  • MECHANISM DESIGN
  • HEALTH
  • pricing rules

“Ordinal Simplicity and Auditability in Discrete Mechanism Design.” (with Marek Pycia) Revision requested at International Economic Review.
[ New Draft – Oct. 2023. WP ] [ Previous – Nov. 2021: WP ] [ First Draft – Feb. 2016: WP ]

  • MECHANISM DESIGN
  • SOCIAL WELFARE
  • AXIOMATICS
  • PRIVACY

“Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care.” (with Ludwig Dierks, Nils Olberg, Sven Seuken, and Vincent W. Slaugh) Revision requested at Operations Research.
[ New Draft – May 2024: arXiv ]

  • SEARCH & MATCHING
  • CHILD WELFARE

“Informed Neutrality in Minimalist Market Design: A Case Study on a Constitutional Crisis in India” (with Tayfun Sönmez)
[ New Draft – June 2024: arXiv] [ Nov. 2022: SSRN]

  • RESERVE SYSTEMS
  • FAIRNESS
  • CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN
  • AXIOMATICS

“Rematching with Contracts under Labor Mobility Restrictions: Theory and Application.” (with Umut Dur and Robert G. Hammond)
[ Apr. 2024: WP ]

  • LABOR MARKET REGULATIONS
  • MATCHING WITH CONTRACTS
  • EMPIRICS

“Child Welfare Platform Design to Improve Outcomes for Children with Disabilities” (with Ludwig Dierks and Vincent W. Slaugh)
[ New Draft: March 2024: WP ]

  • CHILD WELFARE
  • PLATFORM DESIGN

Retired Papers

“The Trade-off Between Vaccine Prioritization and Speed Depends on Mitigation Measures.” (with Nikhil Agarwal, Andrew Komo, Chetan Patel, Parag A. Pathak) Unpublished mimeo.
[ Feb. 2021: medRxiv | NBER ]

  • DYNAMIC ALLOCATION
  • HEALTH
  • SIR models

“Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design.” (with Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez) Unpublished mimeo.
[ Latest Draft – Oct. 2020: PDF ] [ Older Draft – May 2020: WP | NBER ]

  • Policy Impact
  • Related: “White Paper: Expanding Access to Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma using Incentives” (with Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez)
    [ July 2020: PDF ]
  • MARKET DESIGN
  • DYNAMIC ALLOCATION
  • HEALTH
  • extensive margin

“Maintaining Diversity in Student Exchange.” (with Umut Dur and Onur Kesten) Unpublished mimeo.
[ April 2015: WP | PDF ] [ Slides ]

  • DISCRETE ALLOCATION
  • BALANCED EXCHANGE
  • MECHANISM DESIGN

“Market Mechanisms for Fair Allocation of Indivisible Objects and Money.” Final status: Revise and resubmit at Social Choice and Welfare.
[ March 2007: PDF ]

  • DISCRETE ALLOCATION
  • BALANCED EXCHANGE
  • MECHANISM DESIGN

“Trading Cycles for School Choice.” (with Marek Pycia) Unpublished mimeo.
[ July 2011: WP ]

  • DISCRETE ALLOCATION
  • MECHANISM DESIGN

“Valuing Prearranged Paired Kidney Exchanges: A Stochastic Game Approach.” (with Murat Kurt, Mark S. Roberts, Andrew J. Schaefer) Final status: Revise and resubmit at Operations Research.
[ Oct. 2011: PDF ]

  • DISCRETE EXCHANGE
  • STOCHASTIC GAMES
  • HEALTH

“Transplant Center Incentives in Kidney Exchange.” (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez) Unpublished mimeo.
[ March 2005: PDF ]

  • DISCRETE EXCHANGE
  • INCENTIVES
  • HEALTH

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