The sequential stochastic assignment problem (SSAP) allocates distinct workers with deterministic values to sequentially arriving tasks with stochastic parameters to maximize the expected total reward ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper uses random assignment in professional golf tournaments to test for peer effects in the workplace. We find no evidence that playing ...

Random case assignment is a hallmark of the federal justice system. Judges can't shop for cases they like and shunt aside the ones they don't. Otherwise, Medicare cases would never be heard. But in ...