Publications

Refereed Journal Publications | Other Publications

Refereed Journal Publications

• “Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms,” (joint with Parag Pathak and Alex Rees-Jones). Forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics. [ PDF ] [ NBER Digest Summary ]

• “Affirmative Action in India via Vertical, Horizontal, and Overlapping Reservations” (joint with M. Bumin Yenmez), Econometrica, 90(3), 1143-1176, May 2022. [ PDF ] [Online Appendix] [ Policy Impact ] [ Op-ed ] [ Promotional Video ] Earlier Versions

  This final version subsumes the following two earlier working papers:
  

  1-  “Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations,”  (joint with M. Bumin Yenmez). [ March-2019 PDF ]  [ October-2019 PDF ]

  2-  “Affirmative Action with Overlapping Reserves,” (joint with M. Bumin Yenmez). [ PDF ]

  Note: The two earlier versions of the manuscript #1 and the manuscript #2 each has additional analytical content that  is not included in any other version, including the current February 2021 main version which subsumes both manuscripts.

  Policy oriented readers may prefer the following previous version of the paper which only differs with the final version in its more policy oriented Introduction and title:

  “Can Economic Theory Be Informative for the Judiciary? Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations,”  (joint with M. Bumin Yenmez). 

• “Reversing Reserves,”  (joint with Parag A. Pathak and Alex Rees-Jones), forthcoming in Management Science.  [ PDF ] [ Web Appendix ]

• “A Multi-center Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics,” (joint with Douglas White, Erin McCreary,  Chung-Chou Ho Chang, Mark Schmidhofer,  Robert Truog,  Govind Persad, Naudia Jonassaint,  Parag Pathak, and  M Utku Ünver),  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 206(4):503-506, August 15, 2022.

• “Deduction Dilemmas: The Taiwan Assignment Mechanism,” (joint with Umut Dur , Parag Pathak, and Fei Song),  AEJ: Microeconomics 14(1), 164-85, February 2022. [ PDF ] [ AEA Coverage ]

• “A Novel Approach to Equitable Distribution of Scarce Therapeutics: Institutional Experience Implementing a Reserve System for Allocation of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies,” (joint with Emily Rubin , Scott L Dryden-Peterson, Sarah P Hammond, Inga Lennes, Alyssa R Letourneau, Parag Pathak, and M Utku Ünver), CHEST Journal, 160:6, 2323-31, December 2021. 

• “Reserve Systems for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Path From April 2020 to April 2021,” (joint with Parag Pathak and M Utku Ünver),  CHEST Journal, 160:4, 1572-1575, October 2021. 

• “Categorized Priority Systems A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities,” joint with (Parag Pathak,  M Utku Ünver), Govind Persad, Robert D. Truog, and Douglas B. White),  CHEST Journal,  159:3, 1294-1299, March 2021. [ PDF ]

• “Covid-19: how to prioritize worse-off populations in allocating safe and effective vaccines,”  (joint with Harald Schmidt, Parag Pathak and M Utku Ünver), British Medical Journal, 2020;371:m3795. [ PDF ]

• “Incentivized Kidney Exchange,”  (joint with Utku Ünver and M. Bumin Yenmez),  American Economic Review, 110(7): 2198-2224, July 2020. [ PDF ] [ Online Appendix ]

• “Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange,” (joint with Haluk Ergin and Utku Ünver), Econometrica, 88(3): 965-1005, May 2020. [ PDF ] [ Online Appendix ] Earlier Version

  Here is an earlier version with a Simple 2-size Model  

• “Explicit vs. Statistical Targeting in Affirmative Action: Theory and Evidence from Chicago’s Exam Schools” (joint with Umut Dur and Parag Pathak), Journal of Economic Theory, 187, 104996, May 2020. [ PDF ]

• “Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and The Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones,” (joint with Umut Dur, Scott Duke Kominers, and Parag A. Pathak),  Journal of Political Economy,  126(6), December 2018. [ PDF ] [ Testimony to Boston School Committee ] [ Related Op-ed ]

• “How (Not) to Integrate Blood Subtyping Technology to Kidney Exchange,” (joint with Utku Ünver and Özgür Yilmaz),  Journal of Economic Theory, 176: 193-231, July 2018.  [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

• Market Design for Living-Donor Organ Exchanges: An Economic Policy Perspective, (with Utku Ünver), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 33(4), 676–704, November 2017. [ Abstract ]  [ PDF ]

• “Dual-Donor Organ Exchange,” (joint with Haluk Ergin and Utku Ünver), Econometrica 85(5): 1645-1671, September 2017.   [ Abstract ] [ PDF ] [ Supplemental Appendix ] [ Press Coverage ].

• “School Choice Under Complete Information: An Experimental Study,” (joint with Yan Chen and Yingzhi Liang), Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, 1(1): 45-82, December 2016. 

• “Matching with Slot-Specific Priorities: Theory,” (joint with Scott Duke Kominers), Theoretical Economics, 11(2), 683-710, May 2016. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

• “Kidney Exchange and the Alliance for Paired Donation: Operations Research Changes the Way Kidneys Are Transplanted,” (joint with Ross Anderson, Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael Rees, Alvin Roth and Utku Unver), INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, 45-1: 26-42, January-February 2015. [ Informs link ]

• “Altruistically Unbalanced Kidney Exchange,” (joint with Utku Ünver), Journal of Economic Theory, 152: 105-129, July 1014. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

• “Matching with Contracts: Comment.” (joint with with Orhan Aygün), American Economic Review, 103(5): 2050-2051, August 2013. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ] [ Detailed Working Paper ]

• “Matching with (Branch-of-Choice) Contracts at the United States Military Academy.” (joint with Tobias Switzer), Econometrica, 81(2): 451-488, March 2013. [ PDF ] [ Policy Impact ] [ Media ]

• “School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation.” (joint with Parag Pathak), American Economic Review, 103(1): 80-106, February 2013. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ] [ Appendix ] Corrigendum for Proposition 3

  • Corrigendum for Proposition 3

  • Bonkoungou and Nesterov (2020) 

Other Publications

• “Fair access to scarce medical capacity for non-covid-19 patients: a role for reserves,” (joint with Govind Persad, Parag Pathak, and  M Utku Ünver),  BMJ 2022;376:o276.

• “Improving Ventilator Rationing Through Collaboration With Experts on Resource Allocation,“(joint with Parag A. Pathak and Utku Ünver), JAMA Network Open, 2020;3(6):e2012838.

• “Cadet-Branch Matching,” ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 13(1): 50-57, June 2014. [PDF] [Policy Impact ]

• “Market Design for Kidney Exchange.” (with Utku Ünver) Z. Neeman, A. Roth, N. Vulkan (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Market Design, Oxford, 2013. [ PDF ]

• “Matching Markets: Theory and Practice.” (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu), D. Acemoglu, M. Arello, and E. Dekel (eds),  Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 1,  Cambridge, 3-47, 2013. [ PDF ]

• “Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources.” (joint with Utku Ünver), J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, and M. Jackson (eds.), Handbook of Social Economics, Handbook of Social Economics, Vol. 1A. The Netherlands: North-Holland, (2011) 781-852. [ PDF ]

• “Matching.” (joint with Muriel Niederle and Alvin Roth), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2^nd edition, Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. [ PDF ]

• “The Boston Public School Match.” (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag Pathak and Alvin Roth), American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 95-2: 368-371, May 2005. [ PDF ]

• “A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England.” (joint with Alvin Roth and Utku Ünver), American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 95-2: 376-380, May 2005. [ PDF ]