Showing posts with label Pathak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pathak. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

School choice, school quality, and student performance

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  School choice, which allows children to move away from neighborhood schools, doesn't by itself improve school quality, although it may...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

The Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture for 2023 at BU, by Parag Pathak

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 Parag Pathak gave this year's Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture at Boston University. The title of his talk is “Still Worth the Trip? ...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Tom Payzant, Boston schools superintendent who reformed school choice, dies at 80

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 Tom Payzant played a critical role in transforming Boston's school choice from an immediate acceptance algorithm that exposed students...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

Parag Pathak celebrated in Science News

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Science News advises us that Parag Pathak is worth watching ... Parag Pathak uses data and algorithms to make public education fairer Af...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Parag Pathak interview on designing theories for the real world

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Here's the introduction, click on the link to read more, or to hear the audio recording. Designing theories for the real world The A...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

"Economics that works" in Bloomberg, celebrates Parag Pathak as a reply to some critics of economics

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A Top Econ Prize for a Theory That Works This economist figured out a better way to assign students to public schools. By Noah Smith, Ma...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Parag Pathak wins the American Economic Association's Clark Medal

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Here's the announcement, which describes Parag's work well: Parag Pathak, Clark Medalist 2018 Parag Pathak See my earlier p...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

MIT celebrates Parag Pathak

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Game theory, in the real world: MIT economist Parag Pathak engineers practical solutions to complicated education problems ... In 2003...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Market designers at the Milgrom/Nemmers Prize conference

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A multitude of market designers. Here's a photo of Bob Wilson, Paul Milgrom; and Parag Pathak in the near background: Faces to recogniz...