Martín Valdevenito

I am a PhD Student in Economics at the University of Zürich.

I am interested in market design and matching markets, with a special focus on inequality and simplicity.

Education

PhD Economics
University of Zürich, expected 2029
MSc Applied Economics
Universidad de Chile, 2023
BSc Industrial Engineering
Universidad de Chile, 2023

Interests

Market design
Matching markets

Working papers

Evaluating Priority Rules in School Choice

(with J. Escobar)

In many school choice programs, students are centrally assigned to schools using the deferred acceptance algorithm. The priority rule employed by schools–such as proximity, sibling attendance, or random scores–significantly impacts the efficiency of the assignment process. We derive upper and lower bounds for the fraction of students assigned to their top schools and the fraction of students that can be Pareto improved in a large market school choice model. Additionally, we characterize the inefficiencies resulting from various priority rules. Our bounds also facilitate the comparison of different priority rules. We apply our bounds to examine random tie breaking rules. We also show that while distance-based priorities may result in several students being assigned to their top schools, they can also lead to significant efficiency losses. Simulations using Chilean data confirm our theoretical findings.

Published

Identifying Factors Predicting Kidney Graft Survival in Chile Using Elastic-Net-Regularized Cox’s Regression

(with L. Magga, S. Maturana, M. Olivares, J. Cabezas, J. Chapochnick, F. González, A. Kompatzki, H. Müller, J, Pefaur, C. Ulloa, and R. Valjalo)

Medicina 2022, 58(10), 1348

Contact

martin.valdevenito@econ.uzh.ch

Schönberggasse 1, Zürich, Switzerland 8001