AEA awards Parag Pathak, Clark Medalist 2018

The most prestigious award a young researcher can receive in economics, the John Bates Clark medal, has been awarded to Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pathak is clearly the researcher under age forty who has contributed most both to the general field of market design, and, in addition, to what has been its most important application in the last decade or so, that of education policy. Pathak’s applied work in market design has led to significant improvements in the application of market-design tools to the assignment of students to public schools.