Daniel Waldinger is an Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU. He is an empirical economist working on market design issues in housing and health care markets. His dissertation studied the waiting list systems used to allocate public housing and organs for transplant, focusing on design trade-offs between efficiency and other policy goals such as fairness and income redistribution. Methodologically, he is interested in how game theory and empirical models of individual decision making can be used to evaluate public policy. Daniel received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2018 and his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 2010.
