Optimal Allocation of Seats in the Presence of Peer Effects: Evidence from a Job Training Program
研究了在名额有限的培训项目中，同伴效应如何影响最优分配规则，并利用美国弱势成年人职业培训的随机实验数据，发现考虑同伴效应能显著提升项目效果。
We model optimal treatment assignment in programs with a limited number of seats and study how the presence of peer effects impacts the optimal allocation rule. We then use data from a randomized control trial to show evidence that there are large peer effects in the context of job training for disadvantaged adults in the United States. Finally, we combine the model and the empirics to show that the program would have had a much greater impact if the assignment choices had accounted for the peer effects.