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Publications:

“Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design”
with Joshua D. Angrist, Yusuke Narita and Parag Pathak, Econometrica, forthcoming

"Efficiency, Justiffied Envy, and Incentives in Priority-Based Matching"
with Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Olivier Tercieux, American Economic Review: Insights, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2020 (Pp. 425-42)

"Do Parents Value School Effectiveness?"
with Parag A. Pathak, Jonathan Schellenberg and Christopher R. Walters, American Economic Review, Vol. 110, No. 5, May 2020 (pp. 1502-39)

      “Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?”
      with Parag A. Pathak and Christopher Walters, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(1), 2018
      (earlier versions: December 2015 NBER Working Paper 21839; revised March 2016)
      Response to Jay P. Greene allegations

      • “The Welfare Effects of Coordinated Assignment: Evidence From the NYC HS Match” and Appendix
        with Nikhil Agarwal and Parag Pathak, conditionally accepted, American Economic Review, January 2017
        (earlier version, NBER Working Paper 21046)

        “Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation” and Appendix,
        with Joshua D. Angrist, Yusuke Narita and Parag Pathak, conditionally accepted, Econometrica, December 2016
        (earlier version, NBER Working Paper 21705)

        “Regression Discontinuity in Serial Dictatorship: Achievement Effects at Chicago’s Exam Schools”
        with Joshua D. Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak and Roman A. Zarate, American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 107(5), 2017

      • "Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston"
        with Josh Angrist, Peter Hull and Parag Pathak, American Economic Review, 2016, 106(7): 1878-1920

        • “Expanding “Choice” in School Choice”
          with Yeon-Koo Che and Yosuke Yasuda, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015, 7(1): 1-42.
        • (supplement)

        “The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools”
      • with Joshua Angrist and Parag Pathak, Econometrica, Vol. 82, No. 1 (January, 2014), 137–196
      • (supplement)

    • “Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships”
      with Kyle Bagwell, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 5, No.2, May 2013, 213-59.

  • “School Choice”
    In Zvika Neeman, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and Nir Vulkan
    editors, Oxford Handbook of Market Design. Oxford University Press.

  • “Matching Markets: Theory and Practice”
  • with Tayfun Sönmez in Advances in Economics and Econometrics Theory and Applications, Tenth World Congress, Volume II.

    "Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots"
    with Joshua D. Angrist, Susan M. Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane and Parag Pathak, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011, 126(2): 699-748

  • "Resolving Conflicting Preferences in School Choice: the Boston Mechanism Reconsidered"
    with Yeon-Koo Che and Yosuke Yasuda, American Economic Review, 2011, 101(1): 399–410

  • "Strategyproofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match"
    with Parag Pathak and Alvin E. Roth, American Economic Review, 2009, 99(5): 1954-1978

  • “College Admissions with Affirmative Action”
    International Journal of Game Theory, 2005, 33: 535-549

  • “The New York City High School Match”
    with Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2005, May, 95: 364-367

  • “The Boston Public School Match”
    with Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2005, May, 95: 368-371

  • “Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach”
    with Tayfun Sönmez and Utku Unver, Social Choice and Welfare, 2004, 22: 515-538

  • “School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach”
    with Tayfun Sönmez, American Economic Review, 2003, 93-3: 729-747

  • “Ordinal Efficiency and Dominated Sets of Assignments”
    with Tayfun Sönmez, Journal of Economic Theory, 2003, 112: 157-172

  • “Unemployment Insurance and the Role of Self-Insurance”
    with Burhanettin Kuruşçu and Ayşegül Şahin, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2002, 3: 681-703

  • “House Allocation with Existing Tenants”
    with Tayfun Sönmez, Journal of Economic Theory, 1999, 88: 233-260

  • “Random Serial Dictatorship and the Core from Random Endowments in House Allocation Problems”
    with Tayfun Sönmez, Econometrica, 1998, 66:689-701


  • Working Papers and Ongoing Work:


    “School Assignment by Match Quality”
    with Umut M. Dur and Aram Grigoryan March 2021, NBER Working Paper 28512

    “Priority-based Assignment with Reserves and Quotas” with Aram Grigoryan

    “Efficient and Envy Minimal Matching” with Aram Grigiryan

    “Matching with Complementarities” with Aram Grigoryan

    "Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York"
    with Weiwei Hu and Parag Pathak, October 2013, NBER Working Paper 19576

    "The Optimal Chips Mechanism in a Model of Favors"
    with Kyle Bagwell

    • “Generalized Matching for School Choice”

    • “The Role of Priorities in Assigning Indivisible Objects: A Characterization of Top Trading Cycles”
      with Yeon-Koo Che

    • “Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism”
      with Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez


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