The most prestigious award a young researcher can receive in economics, the John Bates Clark medal, has been awarded to the incredibly productive Parag Pathak. His CV is one that could only belong a true rocket of a career: he was a full professor at MIT 11 years after he started his PhD, finishing the degree in four years before going to Paul Samuelson route through the Harvard Society of Fellows to become the top young theorist in Cambridge.
Pathak is best known for his work on the nature and effects of how students are allocated to schools. This is, of course, an area where theorists have had incredible influence on public policy, notably via Pathak’s PhD Advisor, the Nobel prize winner Al Roth and his proteges like Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Tayfun Somnez, as well as the work of 2015 Clark medal winner Roland Fryer. Indeed, this group’s work
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