In the Media: How Economists Improved New York City’s High School Application Process

08 December 2014 11:57AM

Last week 75,000 eighth graders in New York City had to submit applications to secure a spot at one of 426 public high schools. As daunting as this process might be, it was far more complicated before a team of economists – including Duke Economics Professor Atila Abdulkadiroglu – redesigned it.

Abdulkadiroglu was part of the three-man team that created a Nobel Prize-worty algorithm that fixed the application process. According to The New York Times, their solution “was a model of mathematical efficiency and elegance.”

Read the full article on The New York Times.