Adam Kapor

Adam Kapor joins the FAS as Associate Professor of Economics. His research is in industrial organization and empirical market design, with a particular focus on education markets. He uses structural models to study school choice mechanisms, college admissions, and information frictions that shape educational outcomes.

Prior to joining Yale, Kapor was Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the School of Public and International Affairs. He earned his PhD in Economics from Yale University in 2015, where he studied under Philip Haile and Joseph Altonji. His dissertation, Educational Impacts of Admissions Mechanisms, examined the effects of admissions systems on educational outcomes.

Kapor's research has advanced the understanding of school choice, centralized assignment systems, and heterogeneous beliefs in education markets. In collaboration with Christopher Neilson, he has coauthored influential studies on smart matching platforms and school assignment, including research published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review examining matching mechanisms and heterogeneous beliefs in the New Haven Public Schools.