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Clayton Featherstone serves as an Assistant Professor at Baylor University, maintaining an office in the Foster Business and Innovation building (Room 320.14). His academic work centers on economic theory and market design with practical applications across labor markets, healthcare systems, and educational institutions.
Featherstone's research program investigates how market mechanisms shape participant behavior and outcomes in constrained environments. Key focus areas include liquidity effects in teacher labor markets (particularly through Teach For America partnerships), stability conditions in kidney exchange programs, and strategic manipulation in school choice systems. His methodological approach integrates formal theoretical modeling with rigorous experimental and field evidence to address questions of efficiency, welfare, and mechanism design. This dual-method strategy enables direct policy relevance while advancing foundational market design theory.
Analysis of his 15 publications (2008-2024) reveals consistent thematic development around matching market efficiency and participant behavior under constraints. Early work established frameworks for understanding market failures in kidney exchange (2010-2011), while mid-career research quantified liquidity impacts on career decisions using Teach For America data (2017-2019). His most recent contributions examine information nudges (2024) and out-of-equilibrium truth-telling (2021), demonstrating evolving sophistication in behavioral market design. Across all works, Featherstone maintains focus on real-world institutional contexts while developing generalizable theoretical insights.
