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U.S. household structures have changed dramatically since the pinnacle of the post-World War II baby boom, around 1960 (US Census 2018), when single parents housed about 9% of children. Single parent homes now house 23% of U.S. children (Kramer 2019), the highest rate in the wor…

In many decision problems, agents base their actions on a simple objective index, a single number that summarizes the available information about objects of choice independently of their particular preferences. The first chapter proposes an axiomatic approach for deriving an ind…

The stage of 'matching', commonly described as 'donor selection', is an integral stage in the egg donation process and refers to the selection of a particular donor for a particular recipient for the purpose of reproduction. Despite the model of clinic-mediated matching being an…