Working Papers

Working Papers

Older working papers are here


“Market Design for Social Justice: A Case Study on a Constitutional Crisis in India” (with Tayfun Sönmez)
[ Nov. 2022: SSRN] [ Oct. 2022: arXiv]

  • RESERVE SYSTEMS
  • FAIRNESS
  • CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN
  • AXIOMATICS

“Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: Theory and Application” (with Xiang Han, Onur Kesten)
[ Latest Draft : Oct 2022 SSRN ] [ Initial Draft: 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

“Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care.” (with Nils Olberg, Ludwig Dierks, Sven Seuken, and Vincent W. Slaugh)
[ March 2021: arXiv ]

  • SEARCH & MATCHING
  • FAMILY EC.

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

  • CENTRALIZED LABOR MARKETS
  • PROPERTY RIGHTS
  • EQUITY
  • MECHANISM DESIGN
  • EDUCATION EC.
  • EMPIRICS

“Arrovian Efficiency and Auditability in Discrete Mechanism Design” (with Marek Pycia) Revision requested, International Economic Review
[ Latest Draft – Nov. 2021: WP ] [ Older Draft “Arrovian Efficiency in Allocation of Discrete Resources” – Feb 2016: WP ]

  • MECHANISM DESIGN
  • SOCIAL WELFARE
  • AXIOMATICS
  • PRIVACY

“Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators, and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing” (with Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Bumin Yenmez) Revision requested, Management Science
[ Latest Draft: Jan. 2021:arXiv ] [ video present.: short ]

  • Refereed proceeding publication of its extended abstract:
    EC ’21: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, (2021) 785-786.
    [Proceeding]
  • Explanation of this paper’s policy impact and resources regarding software implementation resources we developed are available at www.covid19reservesystem.org.
  • Related: My other policy-oriented working papers and published papers on pandemic resource allocation can be reached at www.covid19reservesystem.org/research.
  • Initial Draft: “Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing”
    [ April 2020:WP | NBER ]
  • MARKET DESIGN
  • RESERVE SYSTEMS
  • EQUITY
  • HEALTH

Older Working Papers


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

  • 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)
[ 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)
[ April 2015: WP | PDF ] [ Slides ]

  • DISCRETE ALLOCATION
  • BALANCED EXCHANGE
  • MECHANISM DESIGN

“Market Mechanisms for Fair Allocation of Indivisible Objects and Money” final status: Revise&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&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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