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We study the welfare produced by a coordinated school assignment system that is based exclusively on minimizing distance to schools, comparing the matches it produces to a system that includes household preferences using a deferred acceptance algorithm. We leverage administrative data and a...
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, and the intrinsic difficulty of embedding diversity goals into stable matching mechanisms. Under some regularity …
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-optimal and hospital-optimal stable mechanisms in matching markets. Both the mechanisms are manipulable via Type-2 pre …
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Recent debate in the medical literature has brought attention to issues with the pre-match interview process for residency and fellowship positions at hospitals. However, little is known about the economics of this decentralized process. In this paper, I build a game-theoretic model in which...
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We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched … pairs play an infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. Higher matching efficiency is usually considered detrimental as it … creates stronger incentives for defection. We point out, however, that a reduction in matching frictions also increases …
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We study congestion problems in decentralized, two-sided matching markets. The main focus is on the impact of market … from a centralized market with assortative matching …
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