Agenda

Matching market design traditionally wields microeconomic theory to improve efficiency and fairness in object allocation environments without money. My current research agenda extends developments in matching theory to design foster care and adoption matching mechanisms where novel elements irreducibly embed themselves in the market operation. Foster care requires additional design considerations that are relatively understudied in economic literature. Therefore, my work pushes the theoretical frontier to develop methodological tools relevant to the foster care setting while empirically evaluating these tools to demonstrate their efficacy. I also design experiments and empirically evaluate policies and organizational programs that encourage socially beneficial outcomes for vulnerable populations, especially vulnerable children in poverty and in any child welfare systems.