7 papers
Diversity as Majorization
Federico Echenique, Teddy Mekonnen, M. Bumin Yenmez
How should institutions compare group diversity, and which group should they select when they value diversity and merit? We take a target-based approach that evaluates the entire g…
Acceptant Expansions of Path-Independent Choice Rules
Christopher P. Chambers, M. Bumin Yenmez
A choice rule is -acceptant if it chooses alternatives from each set . We show that a path-independent rule of maximum cardinality at most need not have a…
Rawlsian equity: a new notion of fairness for the assignment problem
Ãzgün Ekici, Sinan Ertemel, M. Bumin Yenmez
We introduce Rawlsian equity, a notion of fairness for allocating indivisible objects among agents without object-specific entitlements. Rawlsian equity requires that an object not…
Endogenous Inequality Aversion: Decision criteria for triage and other ethical tradeoffs
Federico Echenique, Teddy Mekonnen, M. Bumin Yenmez
Medical ``Crisis Standards of Care'' call for a utilitarian allocation of scarce resources in public emergencies, whereas standards of care under normal conditions place relatively…
Distributional Preferences for Market Design
Federico Echenique, Teddy Mekonnen, M. Bumin Yenmez
Institutions selecting students, employees, or members value both about who is selected and the resulting group's composition. We study ``distributional'' preferences over group co…
Market Design with Distributional Objectives
Isa E. Hafalir, Fuhito Kojima, M. Bumin Yenmez +1
We provide optimal solutions to an institution that has distributional objectives when choosing from a set of applications based on merit (or priority). For example, in college adm…