Naomi Utgoff

Thank you!

Tenured! Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way.

(If you saw me present "Relational College Admissions via the Old Boys' Club" at a conference, this is the same paper. If you would like to coauthor on a paper doing structural estimation of this model, please be in touch!)

This result is (to my knowledge) the first new theoretical discrimination channel in 50 years, distinct from taste-based bias (favoring members of certain groups over others) and statistical discrimination (interpreting individual performance based on known group attributes).

I uncover a new-to-economics discrimination channel. High schools' possession of private information about their students creates an incentive for the college to form a relationship with one high school in which the college provides favorable admission treatment in exchange for extra information.

Information-Based Discrimination (drive.google.com/file/d/16ga_...)

Attitudes towards the use of market design may improve with experience. USN physicians expressed hesitation towards the use of deferred acceptance (DA) in billet assignment, but those who participated in a DA experiment subsequently reported favorable attitudes towards continuing the use of DA.

I fear it might never happen again--I had two papers accepted in two weeks!

A Position Assignment Experiment Among Active Duty USN Physicians at Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design (drive.google.com/file/d/1fBgY...) Thanks to Rich Childers for inviting me to this project!