Adam Kapor

Adam Kapor

Associate Professor of Economics
Yale University (Department of Economics)
Website Scholar
CV "summary"}" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-analytics-event="coauthor_link_click" data-analytics-category="Coauthor" data-analytics-label="Twitter - Adam Kapor"> Twitter
6
Joint papers with Christopher
292
Total citations (Scholar)

About

Adam is an Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University, where he also earned his PhD in Economics in 2015 under Philip Haile and Joseph Altonji, with a dissertation titled “Educational Impacts of Admissions Mechanisms.” Before returning to Yale he was on the faculty at Princeton, jointly appointed in the Department of Economics and the School of Public and International Affairs. His research uses structural models to study school choice mechanisms, college admissions, and information frictions in education markets. He and Christopher have a long-running collaboration on heterogeneous beliefs and centralized assignment, including the QJE study of smart matching platforms and the AER paper on heterogeneous beliefs in the New Haven Public Schools.

Background

  • Industrial Organization
  • Empirical Market Design
  • Economics of Education
  • School Choice

Education

  • PhD, Economics · Yale University (2015) · advisors: Philip A. Haile, Joseph G. Altonji
    Educational Impacts of Admissions Mechanisms

Career

  • Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University (Department of Economics) (present)
  • Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University (Department of Economics and School of Public and International Affairs)

Career data last refreshed 2026-05-03 from the PhD-placements project.

Joint work with Christopher

In Christopher's network

Adam Kapor's direct connections within Christopher's coauthor graph. Click any node to open their profile or Scholar page.

Loading network…
← All coauthors