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 …

In the last decade, numerous student assignment systems have been redesigned using
input from economists in the large American cities and elsewhere. This article reviews some …

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School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward
effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose …

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

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 …

We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education,
about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student …

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 …

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 …

After the publication of “School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach” by Abdulkadiroglu
and Sönmez (2003), a Boston Globe reporter contacted us about the Boston Public Schools …