Refereed Journal Publications
| Redesigning the US Army's Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design Kyle Greenberg, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez American Economic Review, Vol 114(4), April 2024 |
| Race and the Mismeasure of School Quality Joshua D. Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters American Economic Review: Insights, Vol 6(1), 20-37 March 2024 |
| Credible School Value-Added with Undersubscribed School Lotteries Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol 106(1), January 2024 |
| Reversing Reserves Parag A. Pathak, Alex Rees-Jones and Tayfun Sönmez Management Science, Vol 69(11), 6940-6953, November 2023 |
| Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Ünver and M. Bumin Yenmez Management Science, Vol 70(6), September 2023 |
| Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Supply of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody Erin K. McCreary, Pharm; Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH; Chung-Chou H. Chang, PhD; Rachel A. Butler, MHA, MPH; Parag Pathak, PhD; Tayfun Sönmez, PhD; M. Utku Ünver, PhD; Ashley Steiner, BS; Maddie Chrisman, PT, DPT; Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH; Douglas B. White, MD, MAS JAMA Health Forum, Vol. 4(9), September 2023 |
| Choice and Consequence: Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak and Román Andrés Zárate Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 223, 1-21 July 2023 |
| The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 138(1), 363-411 February 2023 |
| Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic: Some Perspectives from the Field Parag A. Pathak, Govind Persad, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 38(4), 924-940 December 2022 |
| Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms Parag A. Pathak, Alex Rees-Jones and Tayfun Sönmez Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2022 |
| A Multi-Center Weighted Lottery To Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics Douglas White, Erin McCreary, Chung-Chou Ho Chang, Mark Schmidhofer, Robert Truog, Govind Persad, Naudia Jonassaint, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 206(4), 503-506, August 2022 |
| Deduction Dilemmas: The Taiwan Assignment Mechanism Parag A. Pathak, Fei Song, Tayfun Sönmez and Umut M. Dur American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14(1), 164-185, February 2022 |
| Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist, Yusuke Narita and Parag A. Pathak Econometrica, 90(1), 117-151, January 2022 |
| A Novel Approach to Equitable Distribution of Scarce Therapeutics Emily Rubin, Scott L Dryden-Peterson, Sarah P Hammond, Inga Lennes, Alyssa R Letourneau, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver CHEST Journal, 160(6), 2324-2331, December 2021 |
| Reserve Systems for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver CHEST Journal, 160(4), 1572-1575, October 2021 |
| How Well do Structural Demand Models Work? Counterfactual Predictions in School Choice Parag A. Pathak and Peng Shi Journal of Econometrics, 222(1) Part A:161-195, May 2021 |
| Categorized Priority Systems: A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities Tayfun Sönmez, Parag A. Pathak, M. Utku Ünver, Govind Persad, Robert D. Truog and Douglas B. White CHEST Journal, 159(3), 1294-1299, March 2021 |
| The Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools Glenn Ellison and Parag A. Pathak American Economic Review, 111(3): 943-75, March 2021 |
| The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice Christopher Avery and Parag A. Pathak American Economic Review, 111(1), 129–152, January 2021 |
| Covid-19: How to Prioritize Worse-off Populations in Allocating Safe and Effective Vaccines Parag A. Pathak, Harald Schmidt, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver British Medical Journal, 371, m3795, October 2020 |
| Improving Ventilator Rationing Through Collaboration with Experts on Resource Allocation Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver JAMA Network Open, 3(6), e2012838, June 2020 |
| Explicit vs. Statistical Targeting in Affirmative Action: Theory and Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools Umut Dur, Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 187, 104996, May 2020 |
| Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak, Jonathan Schellenberg and Christopher Walters American Economic Review, 110(5), 1502-1539, May 2020 |
| Efficiency, Justified Envy, and Incentives in Prioritized Matching Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin Roth and Olivier Tercieux American Economic Review: Insights, 2(4), 425-442, December 2020 |
| Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and The Demise of Boston's Walk Zones Umut Dur, Scott D. Kominers, Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 126(6): December 2018 |
| Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement? Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(1): 175–206, January 2018 |
| The Welfare Effects of Coordinated Assignment: Evidence from the New York City High School Match Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Nikhil Agarwal and Parag A. Pathak American Economic Review, Vol. 107(12): 3635-89, December 2017 |
| Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment For Impact Evaluation Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist, Yusuke Narita and Parag A. Pathak Econometrica, 85(5), 1373-1432, September 2017 |
| Conflicts of Interest and Steering in Residential Brokerage Panle Jia Barwick, Parag A. Pathak and Maisy Wong American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9(3), 191-222, July 2017 |
| Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation Joshua D. Angrist, Peter D. Hull, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(2), 871–919, May 2017 |
| Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist, Peter Hull and Parag A. Pathak American Economic Review, 106(7), 1878–1920, July 2016 |
| Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston’s Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice Joshua D. Angrist, Sarah Cohodes, Susan Dynarski, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher Walters Journal of Labor Economics, 34(2), 275–318, January 2016 |
| How Individual Preferences are Aggregated in Groups: An Experimental Study [Github] Attila Ambrus, Ben Greiner and Parag A. Pathak Journal of Public Economics, 129(C), 1-13, September 2015 |
| The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston Panle Jia and Parag A. Pathak RAND Journal of Economics, 46(1), 103-145, March 2015 |
| Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge, Massachusetts David H. Autor, Christopher J. Palmer and Parag A. Pathak Journal of Political Economy, 122(3), 661–717, June 2014 |
| The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist and Parag A. Pathak Econometrica, Vol. 82(1): 137-196, January 2014 |
| Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(4), 1585-1632, October 2013 |
| Explaining Charter School Effectiveness Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher Walters American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(4), 1-27, October 2013 |
| School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by their Vulnerability to Manipulation Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez American Economic Review, 103(1), 80-106, February 2013 |
| The Market for Borrowing Corporate Bonds Paul Asquith, Andrea Au, Thomas Covert and Parag A. Pathak Journal of Financial Economics, 107(1), 155-182, January 2013 |
| Who Benefits from KIPP? Joshua D. Angrist, Susan M. Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 31(4): 837-860, May 2011 |
| Forced Sales and House Prices John Campbell, Stefano Giglio and Parag A. Pathak American Economic Review, 101(5), 2108-2131, August 2011 |
| Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua D. Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane and Parag A. Pathak Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 126(2): 699-748, November 2009 |
| Cooperation over Finite Horizons: A Theory and Experiments Attila Ambrus and Parag A. Pathak Journal of Public Economics, 95(1-2), 500-512, August 2011 |
| Lotteries in Student Assignment: An Equivalence Result Parag A. Pathak and Jay Sethuraman Theoretical Economics, 6(1), 1-17, January 2011 |
| Unobserved Punishment Supports Cooperation [Github] Drew Fudenberg and Parag A. Pathak Journal of Public Economics, 94(1-2), 78-86, February 2010 |
| Strategyproofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth American Economic Review, 99(5), 1954-1978, December 2009 |
| Incentives and Stability in Large Two Sided Matching Markets Fuhito Kojima and Parag A. Pathak American Economic Review, 99(3), 608-627, June 2009 |
| Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Sophisticated Players in the Boston Mechanism Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez American Economic Review, 98(4), 1636-52, September 2008 |