All agents have the same ordinal ranking over all objects, receiving no object (opting out) may be preferable to some objects, agents differ on which objects are worse than opting out, and the latter information is private. The Probabilistic Serial assignment, improves upon (in the Pareto sense)...

It is widely believed that the existing child welfare system is in crisis. In response, many have called for the implementation of intensive family preservation programs. In this brief paper, we identify four issues to be considered when attempting to evaluate the success or failure of family...

This paper considers the problem of allocating N indivisible objects among N agents according to their preferences when transfers are not allowed, and studies the tradeoff between fairness and efficiency in the class of strategy-proof mechanisms. The main finding is that for strategy-proof...