This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics
research. It delineates what is known and largely agreed, and what are the most promising …

In the last decade, numerous student assignment systems have been redesigned using
input from economists in the large American cities and elsewhere. This article reviews some …

The rapidly growing field of computational social choice, at the intersection of computer
science and economics, deals with the computational aspects of collective decision making …

Matching problems with preferences are all around us: they arise when agents seek to be
allocated to one another on the basis of ranked preferences over potential outcomes …

La nouvelle édition du livre fondateur sur le nudge: le livre de référence sur l'économie
comportementale. Richard H. Thaler, spécialiste de l'économie comportementale, prix Nobel …

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces
come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must …

This paper proposes a new mechanism for combinatorial assignment—for example,
assigning schedules of courses to students—based on an approximation to competitive …

We investigate parents' preferences for school attributes in a unique data set of survey,
administrative, census and spatial data. Using a conditional logit, incorporating …

We develop a model of matching with contracts which incorporates, as special cases, the
college admissions problem, the Kelso-Crawford labor market matching model, and …

This paper develops a price-theoretic framework for matching markets with heterogeneous
preferences. The model departs from the Gale and Shapley model by assuming that a finite …