papersSEP 11 04:00 UTC
Study Finds No-Screening Allocations Improve as Object Variety Increases
The paper examines how to distribute heterogeneous goods when screening applicants requires costly effort instead of money. It shows that mechanisms which skip screening entirely achieve better welfare as the variety of objects grows, and analyzes a symmetric continuous market setting. The work sits in the economics and mechanism-design side of machine learning research rather than proposing a new model.