COVID-19 has revealed limitations of existing mechanisms for rationing medical resources
under emergency scenarios. Many argue that these mechanisms abandon various ethical …

Several school districts use assignment systems that give students an incentive to
misrepresent their preferences. We find evidence consistent with strategic behavior in …

ABSTRACT A menu description presents a mechanism to player i in two steps. Step (1) uses
the reports of other players to describe i's menu: the set of i's potential outcomes. Step (2) …

Although there is a rich theoretical literature extolling the virtues of the top trading cycles
(TTCs) mechanism, it is rarely used in practice. Anecdotal evidence suggests that one …

This paper develops a tractable methodology for designing an optimal priority system for
assigning agents to heterogeneous items while accounting for agents' choice behavior. The …

One of the barriers to equality of educational opportunity in the US is the re-segregation of
schools. Despite the landmark Brown vs Board ruling in 1954 that school segregation is …

I study a central authority's ability to commit to a publicly announced mechanism in a one-to-
one agent-object matching model. The authority announces a strategy-proof mechanism …

Statistical discrimination results when a decision-maker observes an imperfect estimate of
the quality of each candidate dependent on which demographic group they belong to [1, 8] …

Students participating in centralized admissions procedures do not typically have access to
the information used to determine their matched school, such as other students' preferences …

When applying to schools and colleges, a key decision commonly faced by students is how
to optimally choose their portfolio of schools. In many settings, large numbers of schools are …