Turnaround time and bottlenecks in market clearing: Decentralized matching in the market for clinical psychologists

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 284-329

  Roth, Alvin E ^a   Xing, Xiaolin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 0001019615     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/262074     Document Type: Article

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