▪️Full name: Parag A. Pathak (1980)
🏫Education:
B.A. in Applied Mathematics (Harvard University)
M.S. in Applied Mathematics (Harvard University)
Ph.D. in Business Economics (Harvard University)
▪️Position:
Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008-Present)
Co-director (and founder), Working Group on Market Design, National Bureau of Economic Research (2008-Present)
Founder of MIT’s Blueprint Labs (formerly the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative), MIT Economics department
▪️Field: Market Design, Urban Economics, Microeconomics, Game Theory
📝Top 3 Papers:
Short interest, institutional ownership, and stock returns (Journal of Financial Economics)
The New York City high school match (American Economic Review)
Forced sales and house prices (The American Economic Review)
🎧Podcast:
Who Gets the Ventilator? (Freakonomics Podcast)
📽Presentation:
How Much Data is there at a Party? (TEDx Talks)
Introduction to Matching Theory (Israel Institute for Advanced Studies)
👩🎓Famous Students:
Christopher Walters (UC Berkeley)
Christopher J. Palmer (MIT)
Peter Hull (Brown University)
🏆Honors & Awards:
John Bates Clark Medal, American Economic Association(2018)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
Named by the Economist as one of the decade’s top eight young economists (2018)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2012-2013)
Hernstein Prize for Best Dissertation in Social Sciences at Harvard (2007)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2003)
Image credit:
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2-©Blueprint Labs, MIT
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