We study college admissions with an eligibility criterion. Each college has strict preferences over the sets of students and each student has strict preferences over the colleges. Each student receives a score from a central exam. The students are endogenously divided into two groups: those who...

We study the problem of allocating a divisible good among a group of people. Each person’s preferences are single-peaked. We consider situations in which there might be more of the resource to be assigned than was planned, or there might be less of the resource. Two robustness properties are...

We study claims problems with indivisible goods. Due to indivisibilities, in certain situations, two agents with equal claims may have to receive unequal amounts. Our main goal is to find rules that deal with these situations in a consistent way. We propose three “systematic favorability”...