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Gaming the Boston School Choice Mechanism in Beijing
The Boston mechanism is criticized for its poor incentive and welfare performances compared to the Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance mechanism (DA). Using school choice data from Beijing, I…
An Economic Theory of Homelessness and Housing
Abstract There is good reason to suspect that changes in the housing market had something to do with the dramatic rise in the homelessness in the United States after 1980. Whether the housing market…
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Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness
Acknowledgments Introduction What Is Homelessness? Why Is It Bad? Homeless Histories Daytime Streetpeople How to Think about Housing Markets Income Distribution Interest Rates and Operating Costs…
Wrong person and wrong place: for homelessness, the conjunction is what matters
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Racial stereotypes and robbery
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Do Homeless Shelter Conditions Determine Shelter Population? The Case of the Dinkins Deluge
Abstract We study why families enter and leave homeless shelters. After 2 years of decline, the number of homeless families in New York City's shelter system began rising again in summer 1990 and…
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A Game-Theoretic Rendering of Promises and Threats
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The racial geography of street vice
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Peaceable Kingdoms and War Zones: Preemption, Ballistics and Murder in Newark ∗
Between 2000 and 2006 the murder rate in Newark doubled while the national rate remained essentially constant. Newark now has eight times as many murders per capita than the nation as a whole.…
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The option value of tax delinquency: Theory
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