Parag Pathak

Working Papers

Mechanism Design meets Priority Design: Redesigning the US Army's Branching Process
with Kyle Greenberg and Tayfun Sönmez
June 2021, NBER Working Paper 28911

The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston
with Guthrie Gray-Lobe and Christopher R. Walters
May 2021, NBER Working Paper 28756

The Trade-off Between Prioritization and Vaccination Speed Depends on Mitigation Measures
with Nikhil Agarwal, Andrew Komo, Chetan Patel, and M. Utku Unver
February 2021

Simple and Credible Value-Added Estimation Using Centralized School Assignment
with Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, and Christopher R. Walters
December 2020, NBER Working Paper 28241

Rationing Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccines: Allocating to States Proportionate to Population May Undermine Commitments to Mitigating Health Disparities
with Harald Schmidt, Michelle Williams, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Unver, Lawrence Gostin
November 2020 | supporting datafile

What Prioritizing Worse-Off Minority Groups for COVID-19 Vaccines Means Quantitatively: Practical, Legal and Ethical Implications
with Harald Schmidt, M. Utku Ünver, Michelle Williams, Tayfun Sönmez, Lawrence Gostin
November 2020

Do Black and Indigenous Communities Receive their Fair Share of Vaccines Under the 2018 CDC Guidelines?
with Harald Schmidt, Adam Soloman, Edwin Song, Tayfun Sonmez, and M. Utku Ünver
September 2020, NBER Working Paper 27817

Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing
with Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Ünver, and M. Bumin Yenmez
Januarly 2021 (Older version, NBER Working Paper 26951)

Choice and Consequence: Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools
with Joshua D. Angrist and Roman Andres Zarate
July 2020

Paying it Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design
Scott Duke Kominers, Tayfun Sönmez, and M. Utku Ünver
May 2020

Reversing Reserves | Appendix
with Alex Rees-Jones and Tayfun Sönmez
April 2020, NBER Working Paper 26767

Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms
with Alex Rees-Jones and Tayfun Sönmez
February 2020, NBER Working Paper 26767

The Effects of Mandatory Transparency in Financial Market Design: Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market
with Paul Asquith and Thomas R. Covert
April 2019, NBER Working Paper 19417

The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice
with Christopher Avery
November 2017 (Older version, NBER Working Paper 21525)

Gentrification and the Amenity Value of Crime Reductions: Evidence from Rent Deregulation
with David Autor and Christopher Palmer
October 2017, NBER Working Paper 23914

The Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools
with Glenn Ellison
September 2016, NBER Working Paper 22589

Demand Modeling, Forecasting, and Counterfactuals, Part I
with Peng Shi
January 2015, (original January 2014, NBER Working Paper 19859)

Charter School Demand and Effectiveness: A Boston Update
with Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, Chris Walters, and Josh Angrist
October 2013

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

Simulating Alternative School Choice Options in Boston | Technical Appendix | Additional Results
with Peng Shi
January 2013

Student Achievement in Massachusetts Charter Schools
with J. D. Angrist, S.R. Cohodes, S. Dynarski, J.B. Fullerton, T.J. Kane, and C.R. Walters
February 2011

Speculative Attacks and Risk Management | Addendum
with Jean Tirole
August 2007

Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism: Strategy-proofness as Equal Access
with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Alvin Roth and Tayfun Sönmez
May 2006, under revision