“Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design,” (joint with Kyle Greenberg and Parag Pathak), American Economic Review 114 (4): 1070-1106. [ PDF ] [ Online Appendix ] [ Policy Impact ] Minimalist Market Design
Mini Course: https://www.mdc.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/minimalist-market-design/
“Liver Paired Exchange,” (joint with Sezai Yilmaz, Utku Unver, Veysel Umman, Volkan Ince, Sami Akbulut, Murat Zeytunlu, Burak Isik, Sukru Emre), Living Donor Organ Transplantation, Volume 2, Chapter 34.16.2, Rainer W.G. Gruessner and Enrico Benedetti (eds), Academic Press, 2024. [ PDF ]
“Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing,” (joint with Parag Pathak, Utku Ünver and M. Bumin Yenmez). Forthcoming in Management Science. [ PDF ] [ Webinar ] [ Slides ] [ April-2020 NBER WP version ] [ Website with Software & Policy Impact ] Media
“Who Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine First? Here’s One Idea,” New York Times, 07/23/2020.
“Increasing COVID-19 plasma donations,” BC News, 07/28/2020.
“The First 4-Way Liver Paired Exchange from an Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Healthcare Professionals and Design Economists,” (joint with Sezai Yilmaz, Utku Ünver, Volkan Ince, Sami Akbulut, Burak Isik and Sukru Emre), American Journal of Transplantation, 23(10), 1612-1621, October 2023. [ PDF ] [ Policy Impact ] Media “Türk doktorlar bir ilki başardı!” Sabah, 28 Temmuz, 2023. “Organ nakline ‘ekonomik’ dokunuş,” Diken, 13 Ağustos, 2023. “New matching system enables world’s first four-way liver exchange,” News Medical, August 22nd, 2023. “Un nouveau système d’appariement permet le premier échange de foie à quatre voies au monde,” Ma Clinique, 23 août 2023. “İki Türk ekonomist ‘çapraz işlem’le karaciğer naklinde fark yarattı,” Ekonomim, 24 Ağustos, 2023. “Karaciğer nakillerinde bir devrimin hikâyesi,“ Sarkaç, 31 Ağustos, 2023. “Organ nakli için ekonomik çözüm,” Habertürk, 7 Eylül, 2023. “Turkish academics’ innovative cross-liver transplantation system saving lives,” Anadolu Ajansi, September 12th, 2023. “Boston-Malatya hattındaki bilimsel çalışma 33 karaciğer hastasını sağlığına kavuşturdu,” TRT Haber, 12 Eylül, 2023. “Karaciğer naklinde dünyada bir ilk,” Sözcü, 13 Eylül, 2023. “BC researchers enable first four-way liver exchange,” BC News, September 22nd, 2023. “Karaciğer naklinde büyük devrim,” Habertürk, 27 Eylül, 2023. “İlklerin üniversitesi! Dünyanın ilk beşli çapraz karaciğer nakli yapıldı,” Habertürk, 1 Kasım, 2023. “Dünyanın ilk altılı Karaciğer çapraz nakli Malatya’da yapıldı,” Diken, 26 Ocak, 2024. “Dünyanın ilk 6’lı çapraz karaciğer nakli Malatya’da yapıldı,” TRT Haber, 26 Ocak, 2024. “Malatya, ‘çapraz karaciğer nakli’nin dünya başkenti oluyor,” Ekonomim, 29 Ocak, 2024. “Malatya çapraz karaciğer nakillerinde “dalya” demeye hazırlanıyor,” Anadolu Ajansı, 23 Mart, 2024.
“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 ]
“Reversing Reserves,” (joint with Parag A. Pathak and Alex Rees-Jones), Management Science, 69:11, 6940-6953, 2023. [ PDF ] [ Web Appendix ] [ Knowledge at Wharton Writeup ]
“Use of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Supply of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody Pre-exposure Prophylaxis,” (joint with Erin K. McCreary, Utibe R. Essien, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Rachel A. Butler, Parag Pathak, Utku Ünver, Ashley Steiner, Maddie Chrisman, Derek C. Angus and Douglas B. White). JAMA Health Forum. 2023;4(9):e232774. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.2774
“Reserve system design for allocation of scarce medical resources in a pandemic: Some perspectives from the field,” (joint with Parag Pathak, Govind Persad, and Utku Ünver ), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 38(4), 924-940, December 2022. [ PDF ] [ Website with Software & Policy Impact ]
“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 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. “Can Economic Theory Be Informative for the Judiciary? Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations,” (joint with M. Bumin Yenmez).
This final version subsumes the following two earlier working papers:
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: