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Refereed Journal Publications

Public Economics

Reversing Reserves

Forthcoming, Management Science

Parag A. Pathak, Alex Rees-Jones and Tayfun Sönmez

March 2025

Labor Economics

Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms

Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 107(1): 1-13

Parag A. Pathak, Alex Rees-Jones, and Tayfun Sönmez

January 2025

Health Economics, Market Design

Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing

Management Science, Vol. 70(6): 3381–4165

Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Ünver and M. Bumin Yenmez

June 2024

Labor Economics, Market Design

Redesigning the US Army's Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design

American Economic Review, Vol. 114(4): 1070–1106

Kyle Greenberg, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez

April 2024

Labor Economics

Race and the Mismeasure of School Quality

American Economic Review: Insights, Vol. 6(1): 20–37

Joshua D. Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters

March 2024

Labor Economics

Credible School Value-Added with Undersubscribed School Lotteries

Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 106(1): 1–19

Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters

January 2024

Health Economics, Market Design

Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Supply of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody

JAMA Health Forum, Vol. 4(9)

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

September 2023

Labor Economics

Choice and Consequence: Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools

Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 223: 1-21

Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak, Roman A. Zarate

July 2023

Labor Economics

The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 138(1), 363-411

Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters

February 2023

Health Economics, Market Design

Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic: Some Perspectives from the Field

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 38(4): 924–940

Parag A. Pathak, Govind Persad, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver

December 2022

Health Economics, Market Design

A Multi-Center Weighted Lottery To Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol 206(4)

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

May 2022

Labor Economics, Market Design

Deduction Dilemmas: The Taiwan Assignment Mechanism

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14(1): 164–185

Parag A. Pathak, Fei Song, Tayfun Sönmez and Umut M. Dur

February 2022

Labor Economics, Market Design

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Econometrica, Vol. 90(1), 117-151

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist, Yusuke Narita and Parag A. Pathak

January 2022

Labor Economics

From Immediate Acceptance to Deferred Acceptance: Effects on School Admissions and Achievement in England

Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Parag A. Pathak, Kevin Ren and Camille Terrier

December 2021

Health Economics, Market Design

A Novel Approach to Equitable Distribution of Scarce Therapeutics

CHEST Journal, Vol. 160(6): 2324-2331

Emily Rubin, Scott L Dryden-Peterson, Sarah P Hammond, Inga Lennes, Alyssa R Letourneau, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver

December 2021

Health Economics, Market Design

Reserve Systems for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic

CHEST Journal, 160(4), 1572-1575

Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver

October 2021

Econometrics, Labor Economics

How Well do Structural Demand Models Work? Counterfactual Predictions in School Choice

Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 222(1) Part A: 161-195

Parag A. Pathak and Peng Shi

May 2021

Health Economics, Market Design

Categorized Priority Systems: A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities

CHEST Journal, Vol. 159(3): 1294-1299

Tayfun Sönmez, Parag A. Pathak, M. Utku Ünver, Govind Persad, Robert D. Truog and Douglas B. White

March 2021

Labor Economics

The Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools

American Economic Review Vol. 111(3): 943–75

Glenn Ellison and Parag A. Pathak

March 2021

Labor Economics, Market Design

The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice

American Economic Review, Vol. 111(1): 129–152

Christopher Avery and Parag A. Pathak

January 2021

Market Design

Efficiency, Justified Envy, and Incentives in Prioritized Matching

American Economic Review: Insights, Vol. 2(4): 425–442

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin Roth and Olivier Tercieux

December 2020

Health Economics, Market Design

Covid-19: How to Prioritize Worse-off Populations in Allocating Safe and Effective Vaccines

British Medical Journal, Vol. 371, m3795

Parag A. Pathak, Harald Schmidt, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver

October 2020

Health Economics, Market Design

Improving Ventilator Rationing Through Collaboration with Experts on Resource Allocation

JAMA Network Open, Vol. 3(6), e2012838

Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver

June 2020

Economic Theory, Labor Economics

Explicit vs. Statistical Targeting in Affirmative Action: Theory and Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools

Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 187: 104996

Umut Dur, Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez

May 2020

Labor Economics

Do Parents Value School Effectiveness?

American Economic Review, Vol. 110(5), 1502-1539

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak, Jonathan Schellenberg and Christopher Walters

May 2020

Labor Economics, Market Design, Political Economy

Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and The Demise of Boston's Walk Zones

Journal of Political Economy, 126(6)

Umut Dur, Scott D. Kominers, Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez

December 2018

Labor Economics, Market Design

Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 10(1): 175–206

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters

January 2018

Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Market Design

The Welfare Effects of Coordinated Assignment: Evidence from the New York City High School Match

American Economic Review, Vol. 107(12): 3635–3689

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Nikhil Agarwal and Parag A. Pathak

December 2017

Econometrics, Market Design

Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment For Impact Evaluation

Econometrica, Vol. 85(5): 1373-1432

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist, Yusuke Narita and Parag A. Pathak

September 2017

Conflicts of Interest and Steering in Residential Brokerage

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 9(3): 191–222

Panle Jia Barwick, Parag A. Pathak and Maisy Wong

July 2017

Labor Economics

Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 132(2), 871–919

Joshua D. Angrist, Peter D. Hull, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters

May 2017

Labor Economics

Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

American Economic Review, Vol. 106(7), 1878–1920

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist, Peter Hull and Parag A. Pathak

July 2016

Labor Economics

Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston’s Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice

Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 34(2): 275–318

Joshua D. Angrist, Sarah Cohodes, Susan Dynarski, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher Walters

January 2016

Public Economics

How Individual Preferences are Aggregated in Groups: An Experimental Study

Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 129(C): 1–13

Attila Ambrus, Ben Greiner and Parag A. Pathak

September 2015

The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston

RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 46(1), 103-145

Panle Jia and Parag A. Pathak

March 2015

Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Journal of Political Economy, 122(3), 661–717.

David H. Autor, Christopher J. Palmer and Parag A. Pathak

June 2014

Labor Economics

The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

Econometrica, Vol. 82(1): 137–196

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist and Parag A. Pathak

January 2014

Market Design

Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 128(4): 1585–1632

Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth

October 2013

Labor Economics

Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 5(4): 1-27

Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher Walters

October 2013

Labor Economics

School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by their Vulnerability to Manipulation

American Economic Review, Vol. 103(1): 80-106

Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez

February 2013

The Market for Borrowing Corporate Bonds

Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 107(1), 155-182

Paul Asquith, Andrea Au, Thomas Covert and Parag A. Pathak

January 2013

Who Benefits from KIPP?

The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 31(4) 837–860

Joshua D. Angrist, Susan M. Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters

September 2012

Forced Sales and House Prices

American Economic Review, Vol. 101(5): 2108-2131

John Campbell, Stefano Giglio and Parag A. Pathak

August 2011

Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 126: 699–748.

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist, Susan M. Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane and Parag A. Pathak

August 2011

Cooperation over Finite Horizons: A Theory and Experiments

Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 95(1-2), 500-512

Attila Ambrus and Parag A. Pathak

August 2011

Economic Theory, Labor Economics

Lotteries in Student Assignment: An Equivalence Result

Theoretical Economics, Vol. 6(1): 1-17

Parag A. Pathak and Jay Sethuraman

January 2011

Public Economics

Unobserved Punishment Supports Cooperation

Journal of Public Economics, 94(1-2): 78-86

Drew Fudenberg and Parag A. Pathak

February 2010

Labor Economics, Market Design

Strategyproofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

American Economic Review, Vol. 99(5): 1954–1978

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth

December 2009

Market Design

Incentives and Stability in Large Two-Sided Matching Markets

American Economic Review, Vol. 99(3): 608–627

Fuhito Kojima and Parag A. Pathak

June 2009

Market Design

Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Sophisticated Players in the Boston Mechanism

American Economic Review, Vol. 98(4): 1636-52

Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez

September 2008

Other Publications

Health Economics, Market Design

Fair Access to Scarce Medical capacity for Non-Covid-19 Patients: a Role for Reserves

British Medical Journal, 376: 276

Govind Persad, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver

February 2022

Econometrics, Labor Economics

Regression Discontinuity in Serial Dictatorship: Achievement Effects at Chicago’s Exam Schools

American Economic Review, 107(5): 240-245

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D. Angrist, Yusuke Narita and Parag A. Pathak

May 2017

Labor Economics

Missing "One-Offs" in High School Choice in New York City

More Equal by Design: Economic Design Responses to Inequality, Oxford University Press

Christopher Avery and Parag A. Pathak

July 2017

Labor Economics, Market Design

What Really Matters in Designing School Choice Mechanisms

Advances in Economics and Econometrics, 11th World Congress of the Econometric Society

Parag A. Pathak

January 2016

Econometrics, Labor Economics

Interpreting Tests of School VAM Validity

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 106(5): 388–392

Joshua D. Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher Walters

May 2016

Labor Economics, Market Design

The Mechanism Design Approach to Student Assignment

Annual Review of Economics, 3(1): 513–536

Parag A. Pathak

January 2011

Labor Economics

Inputs and Impacts in Charter Schools: KIPP Lynn

The American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 100(2), 239-243

Joshua D. Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas Kane, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters

May 2010

The Impact of Commissions on Home Sales in Greater Boston

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 100(2): 475–479

Panle Jia and Parag A. Pathak

May 2010

The Dynamics of Open-Source Contributors

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 96(2): 114–118

Josh Lerner, Parag A. Pathak and Jean Tirole

May 2006

Labor Economics, Market Design

The Boston Public School Match

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 95(2): 368–371

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez

May 2005

Labor Economics, Market Design

The New York City High School Match

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 95(2): 364–367

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth

May 2005