The American Economic Association awarded Parag Pathak the 2018 John Bates Clark Medal for his research on the impacts of educational policies. Both the theory and the empirical research take the constraints facing administrators seriously. As a result, Parag’s research led directly to educational reforms in many large US cities and abroad. The leading example is Parag (and co-authors’) research on school assignment mechanisms that led many school districts to institute fairer and more efficient procedures for allocating students to schools. The institutional detail Parag learned in working on the assignment problem led to innovative empirical work on the impacts of different types of schools, most notably of charters, which was suggestive of the characteristics of both successful schools and of the types of students who gained from being enrolled in them. Using the data generated by the new assignment rules, his recent work provides complete frameworks for the quantitative analysis of the benefits of different assignment mechanisms and has measured those benefits in New York high schools.

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Parag Pathak：2018克拉克奖章获得者

美国经济协会授予Parag Pathak 2018约翰·贝茨·克拉克勋章，以表彰他对教育政策影响的研究。理论和实证研究都认真对待管理者面临的约束。结果，帕拉格的研究直接导致了美国许多大城市和国外的教育改革。最好的例子是帕拉格（和合著者）对学校分配机制的研究，该研究使许多学区制定了更公平，更有效的程序来分配学生入学。帕拉格在处理任务分配问题时所学到的制度细节导致了关于不同类型学校（尤其是特许学校）影响的创新性实证研究，这既暗示了成功学校的特征，也暗示了被成功录取的学生类型。利用新的分配规则生成的数据，他最近的工作为定量分析不同分配机制的收益提供了完整的框架，并测量了纽约高中的收益。