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Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology

Nikhil Agarwal, Alex Moehring, Pranav Rajpurkar, and Tobias Salz

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Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic: Some Perspectives from the Field

Parag A. Pathak, Govind Persad, Tayfun Sönmez, and M. Utku Ünver

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A Multicenter Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics

J. Ryan Bariola, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Naudia N. Jonassaint, Govind Persad, Erin K. McCreary, Parag Pathak, Govind Persad, Mark Schmidhofer, Tayfun Sonmez, Robert D. Truog, M. Utku Ünver, and Douglas B. White

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Association of Disability Compensation With Mortality and Hospitalizations Among Vietnam-Era Veterans With Diabetes

Kyle Greenberg, Lan Jiang, Courtney A. Johnson, Donald R. Miller, Shailender Swaminathan, Amal N. Trivedi, and Wen-Chih Wu

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Demand analysis under latent choice constraints

Nikhil Agarwal and Paulo Somaini

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Algorithm is Experiment: Machine Learning, Market Design, and Policy Eligibility Rules

Yusuke Narita and Kohei Yata

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Education

November 2021

COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status

Daniel L. Chen, Matthias Sutter, and Camille Terrier

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A Novel Approach to Equitable Distribution of Scarce Therapeutics

Emily Rubin, MD, JD, MSHP; Scott L. Dryden-Peterson, MD; Sarah P. Hammond, MD; Inga Lennes, MD, MBA, MPH; Alyssa R. Letourneau, MD, MPH; Parag Pathak, PhD; Tayfun Sonmez, PhD; and M. Utku Ünver, PhD

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October 2021

The impact of school opening model on SARS-CoV-2 community incidence and mortality

Westyn Branch-Elliman, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, Isabella Epshtein, Zeynep Ertem, Richard E. Nelson, Emily Oster, Eli Perencevich, Warren B. P. Pettey, Elissa M. Schechter-Perkins, Polly van den Berg, and Fernando A. Wilson

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Reserve Systems for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, and M. Utku Ünver

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Categorized Priority Systems: A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities

Tayfun Sönmez, Parag A. Pathak, M. Utku Ünver, Govind Persad, Robert D. Truog, Douglas B. White

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The Trade-off Between Prioritization and Vaccination Speed Depends on Mitigation Measures

Nikhil Agarwal, Andrew Komo, Chetan Patel, Parag Pathak, M. Utku Ünver

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Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing

Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Unve, M. Bumin Yenmez

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Equilibrium Allocations under Alternative Waitlist Designs: Evidence from Deceased Donor Kidneys

Nikhil Agarwal, Itai Ashlagi, Michael Rees, Paulo Somaini, Daniel Waldinger

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What prioritizing worse-off minority groups for COVID-19 vaccines means quantitatively: practical, legal, and ethical implications

Harald Schmidt, Utku Ünver, Michelle Williams, Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, and Lawrence Gostin

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Rationing safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines: allocating to states proportionate to population may undermine commitments to mitigating health disparities

Harald Schmidt, Parag Pathak, Michelle Williams, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Ünver, and Lawrence O. Gostin

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