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Simpler Than You Think: The Practical Dynamics of Ranked Choice Voting
Sanyukta Deshpande, Nikhil Garg, Sheldon H. Jacobson
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) adoption is expanding across U.S. elections, but faces persistent criticism for complexity, strategic manipulation, and ballot exhaustion. We empirically…
Capacity Constraints Make Admissions Processes Less Predictable
Evan Dong, Nikhil Garg, Sarah Dean
Machine learning models are often used to make predictions about admissions process outcomes, such as for colleges or jobs. However, such decision processes differ substantially fr…
Heterogeneous participation and allocation skews: when is choice "worth it"?
Nikhil Garg
A core ethos of the Economics and Computation (EconCS) community is that people have complex private preferences and information of which the central planner is unaware, but which…
Optimal Strategies in Ranked Choice Voting
Sanyukta Deshpande, Nikhil Garg, Sheldon Jacobson
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and Single Transferable Voting (STV) are widely valued; but are complex to understand due to intricate per-round vote transfers. Questions like determini…
Balancing Producer Fairness and Efficiency via Prior-Weighted Rating System Design
Thomas Ma, Michael S. Bernstein, Ramesh Johari +1
Online marketplaces use rating systems to promote the discovery of high-quality products. However, these systems also lead to high variance in producers' economic outcomes: a new p…