Publications

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Journal Articles

Systemic planning vs. individual choice: The optimal matching for urban healthcare facilities and patient population

Published in Applied Geography, 2025

This paper studies spatial matching by top-down planning and bottom-up individual choice.

Recommended citation: Huang, L., Zhang, K., Zheng, Q., Zhou, Y., Li, J., & Shen, G. (2025). Systemic planning vs. Individual choice: The optimal matching for urban healthcare facilities and patient population. Applied Geography, 179, 103641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103641
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Simulated stable matching for urban hospitals and residential communities

Published in Applied Economics Letters, 2025

This brief research is the discussion of our last paper in Applied Economics, finding that some super pairs are consistently matched regardless of trade-offs after several rounds of stable matchings.

Recommended citation: Huang, L., Shen, G., & Zhang, K. (2025). Simulated Stable Matching for Urban Hospitals and Residential Communities. Applied Economics Letters, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2025.2490723
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Application of Gale-Shapley algorithm in optimal matching for healthcare facilities to elderly population: the case of Hangzhou, China

Published in Applied Economics, 2024

This paper serves as the first empirical research applying the Nobel Prize winning Gale-Shapley algorithm to study optimal stable matching of healthcare facilities to residential neighbourhoods.

Recommended citation: Huang, L., Zhang, K., Sun, Y., Shen, G., & Coursey, D. (2024). Application of Gale-Shapley Algorithm in Optimal Matching for Healthcare Facilities to Elderly Population: The Case of Hangzhou, China. Applied Economics, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2024.2320175.
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Conference Papers

On Feasible and Stable Spatial Matching Of Urban Healthcare Facilities and Population

Published in The 18th International Association for China Planning Conference and 2024 Chinese Economists Society China Annual Conference, 2024

This paper is the extended version of Simulated Stable Matching for Urban Hospitals and Residential Communities. I made oral presentations at the two conferences.

Recommended citation: Huang, Lepeng and Shen, Guoqiang and Zhang, Kexun and Coursey, David, On Feasible and Stable Spatial Matching Of Urban Healthcare Facilities and Population (January 30, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4751132 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4751132
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Lepeng Huang