Match or mismatch?

Match or Mismatch: Learning and Inertia in School Choice

Centralized matching markets are designed assuming that participants make wellinformed choices upfront. However, this project uses data from NYC’s school choice system to show that families’ choices change after the initial match as they learn about schools. I develop an empirical model of evolving demand for schools under learning, endowment effects in response to prior assignments, and switch...

Election Reform and Democratic Objectives- Match or Mismatch?

To Match or Mismatch ? That is Only One Important Question

This study examined the experiential attitude function—an attitude based on past experience(s)—and tested whether a message targeted at this function would elicit attitude change. Each of 139 undergraduates was assigned randomly to one of four conditions in which a fictitious Executive Committee for Academic Integrity (ECAI) report, written for a university president, supplied strong or weak ar...

Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis, using data from Census Long-Form respondents. We construct direct measures of the presence of jobs in de...

Climate and the match or mismatch between predator requirements and resource availability

Climate influences a population through a variety of processes, including reproduction, growth, migration patterns and phenology. Climate may operate either directly through metabolic and reproductive processes or indirectly through prey, predators, and competitors. One mechanism that may be particularly important, and which is the focus of this review, is the role of climate in affecting the r...