Andrew Newman

How university admissions can help integrate secondary schools

n recent years, several US states have introduced college admission policies that reward local rather than global relative performance by guaranteeing admission to students …

fernanda-estevan

Firm organisation: What we know and why we should care

Increasingly, people are pointing the finger of blame for economic woe at large firms. This column argues that organisation design is often affected by government trade policy. If …

paola-conconi

Firm organisation: What we know and why we should care

Increasingly, people are pointing the finger of blame for economic woe at large firms. This column argues that organisation design is often affected by government trade policy. If …

laura-alfaro

Co-ranking mates: Assortative matching in marriage markets

We show that co-ranking is the necessary and sufficient condition for assortative matching with strictly nontransferable utility. This condition is equivalent to the GID condition …

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Patrick Legros

The timing of education

We study an assignment-with-investment model to highlight a tradeoff between investment in human capital before (ex ante system) and after (ex post system) matching on the labor …

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