Parag A. Pathak

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measure the capitalization of housing market externalities into residential housing values by studying the unanticipated elimination of stringent rent controls in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1995, and find that rent decontrol generated substantial, robust price appreciation at decontrolled units and nearby never-controlled units.

TL;DR: In this article, the Boston School Committee voted to replace the existing Boston school choice mechanism with a deferred acceptance mechanism that simplifies the strategic choices facing parents, and they found evidence that some parents pay close attention to the capacity constraints of different schools while others appear not to.

TL;DR: In this article, the Boston School Committee voted to replace the existing Boston school choice mechanism with a deferred acceptance mechanism that simplifies the strategic choices facing parents, and presented the empirical case against the previous Boston mechanism, a priority matching mechanism, and the case in favor of the change to a strategy-proof mechanism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that in the presence of admissions reserves, the effect of the precedence order (i.e., the order in which different types of seats are filled) is comparable to adjusting reser...

TL;DR: The authors studied the relationship among parent preferences, peer quality, and causal effects on outcomes for applicants to New York City's centralized high school assignment mechanism and found that parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these schools generate larger improvements in short-and long-run student outcomes.