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What prioritizing worse-off minority groups for COVID-19 vaccines means quantitatively: practical, legal, and ethical implications

Harald Schmidt, Utku Ünver, Michelle Williams, Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, and Lawrence Gostin

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Rationing safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines: allocating to states proportionate to population may undermine commitments to mitigating health disparities

Harald Schmidt, Parag Pathak, Michelle Williams, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Ünver, and Lawrence O. Gostin

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Choices and Outcomes in Assignment Mechanisms: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys

Nikhil Agarwal, Charles Hodgson, Paulo Somaini

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COVID-19: How to Prioritize Worse-off Populations in Allocating Safe and Effective Vaccines

Harald Schmidt, Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, and M Utku Ünver

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Do Black and Indigenous Communities Receive Their Fair Share of Vaccines Under the 2018 CDC Guidelines?

Parag Pathak, Harald Schmidt, Adam Solomon, Edwin Song, Tayfun Sönmez, and M. Utku Ünver

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June 2020

Implications of Heterogeneous SIR Models for Analyses of COVID-19

Glenn Ellison

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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus: Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists

Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Clark, Glenn Ellison, and Sara Fisher Ellison

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Market Failure in Kidney Exchange

Nikhil Agarwal, Itai Ashlagi, Eduardo Azevedo, Clayton R. Featherstone, and Ömer Karaduman

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What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange?

Nikhil Agarwal, Itai Ashlagi, Eduardo Azevedo, Clayton Featherstone, and Ömer Karaduman

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Dynamic Incentives in Waitlist Mechanisms

Nikhil Agarwal, Itai Ashlagi, Paulo Somaini, Daniel Waldinger

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