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 …

This paper provides a literature review of freight transportation service procurement and
investigates the challenges and opportunities regarding transportation organization and …

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of large-scale public preschool in Boston
on college-going, college preparation, standardized test scores, and behavioral outcomes …

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 …

Although trends in the racial segregation of schools are well documented, less is known
about trends in income segregation. We use multiple data sources to document trends in …

As economists increasingly help governments design new policies and regulations, they
take on an added responsibility to engage with the details of policy making and, in doing so …

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 …

Most transplanted kidneys are from cadavers, but there are also many transplants from live
donors. Recently, there have started to be kidney exchanges involving two donor-patient …