- Title
- Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match
- Author(s)
- Federico Echenique Federico Echenique (Caltech)
- Ruy González Ruy González (Caltech)
- Alistair Wilson Alistair Wilson (University of Pittsburgh)
- Leeat Yariv Leeat Yariv (Princeton University)
- Abstract
- Most doctors in the NRMP are matched to one of their most-preferred internship programs. Since various surveys indicate similarities across doctors’ preferences, this suggests a puzzle. How can nearly everyone get a position in a highly-desirable program when positions in each program are scarce? We provide one possible explanation for this puzzle. We show that the patterns observed in the NRMP data may be an artifact of the interview process that precedes the match. Our analysis highlights the importance of interactions occurring outside of a matching clearinghouse for resulting outcomes, and casts doubts on analysis of clearinghouses that take reported preferences at face value.
- Creation Date
- 2021-05
- Section URL ID
- Paper Number
- 2021-85
- URL
- http://lyariv.mycpanel.princeton.edu//papers/MatchInterviews.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- C78, D47, J44
- Keyword(s)
- NRMP, Deferred acceptance, Interviews, First-rank matches
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 13