Adam Kapor

Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

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Joint papers with Christopher

807

Total citations (Scholar)

About

Adam is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, jointly appointed in the Department of Economics and the School of Public and International Affairs. He earned his PhD in Economics at Yale in 2015 under Philip Haile and Joseph Altonji, with a dissertation titled “Educational Impacts of Admissions Mechanisms.” 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 and Public Affairs, Princeton University (Department of Economics and School of Public and International Affairs) (present)

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