NBER profile: Parag Pathak.

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Parag Pathak is the founding co-director of the NBER's Working Group on Market Design and a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Education, Public Economics, and Industrial Organization. He is an Associate Professor of Economics at MIT, where he studies market design, the economics of education, and housing markets. He has helped to design algorithms that are currently used for allocating students to schools in several large metropolitan areas, including Boston, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, and New York City.

Pathak attended Harvard University, receiving his bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Business Economics in 2007. Before...