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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 assisted the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) in designing a
mechanism to match over 90,000 entering students to public high schools each year. This …

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 …

This essay examines how repugnance sometimes constrains what transactions and markets
we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures …