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Dynamic Incentives in Waitlist Mechanisms

Peer-reviewed Publication

Nikhil Agarwal, Itai Ashlagi, Paulo Somaini, Daniel Waldinger

May 2018

Many scarce public resources are allocated through a waitlist. A particularly salient example is the kidney waitlist in the United States, which now has almost 100,000 patients waiting for a lifesaving transplant.