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The Efficient Allocation of Individuals to Positions

Hylland, Aanund, Zeckhauser, Richard·1979·Journal of Political Economy
DOI 10.1086/260757
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In a variety of contexts, individuals must be allocated to positions with limited capacities. Legislators must be assigned to committees, college students to dormitories, and urban homesteaders to dwellings. (A general class of fair division problems would have the positions represent goods.) This paper examines the general problem of achieving efficient allocations when individuals' preferences are unknown and where (as with a growing number of nonmarket allocation schemes) there is no facilitating external medium of exchange such as money. An implicit market procedure is developed that elicits honest preferences, that assigns individuals efficiently, and that is adaptable to a variety of distributional objectives.

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Authors
Hylland, A., & Zeckhauser, R.
Venue
Journal of Political Economy
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
1979-04
Volume
87
Issue
2
Pages
293-314
ISSN
  • 0022-3808 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-534X
DOI
10.1086/260757
OpenAlex
W2008751404
Cited by
549
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11
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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