Markovian Search with Ex Ante Constraints: Theory and Applications to Socially Aware Algorithmic Hiring

Mohammad Reza Aminian
Mohammad Reza Aminian
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Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Vahideh Manshadi
Vahideh Manshadi
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Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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Rad Niazadeh
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Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Mohammad Reza Aminian

Mohammad Reza Aminian

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https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5412-2449

Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

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Vahideh Manshadi

Vahideh Manshadi

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9103-7797

Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

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Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

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Published Online:5 Jun 2026https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.04079

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Received:December 13, 2023
Accepted:November 17, 2025
Published Online:June 05, 2026

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Mohammad Reza Aminian, Vahideh Manshadi, Rad Niazadeh (2026) Markovian Search with Ex Ante Constraints: Theory and Applications to Socially Aware Algorithmic Hiring. Management Science 0(0).

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V. Manshadi and R. Niazadeh gratefully acknowledge the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, as this work was done in part while attending the program on Data Driven Decision Processes. The authors thank the anonymous editorial team, whose comments immensely helped to improve our paper.