9th workshop Matching in Practice, June 8 - June 9
The program for the 9th workshop of Matching in Practice is up:
Scientific Program
Day 1: June 8, 2015
11:00 – 11:30 Welcome Coffee
11:30 – 12:00 Registration
12:00 – 13:30 Keynote presentation – Christopher Avery (Harvard Kennedy School of Government)
The Common Application and the DA Algorithm in School Assignment (with Cara Nickolaus and Parag Pathak)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30 Strategic Choice and Affirmative Action
Dynamic Reserves in Matching Markets with Contracts: Theory and Applications, by Orhan Aygün and Bertan Turhan
College Admission with Multidimensional Privileges: The Brazilian Affirmative Action Case, by Orhan Aygün and Inacio Bo
Self-selection in School Choice, by Li Chen and Juan Sebastián Pereyra
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 Empirical Estimation of Preferences in School Choice
Demand Analysis using Strategic Reports: An application to a school choice mechanism, by Nikhil Agarwal and Paolo Somaini
Structural Estimation of a Model of School Choices: the Boston Mechanism vs. Its Alternatives, by Caterina Calsamiglia, Chou Fu and Maia Güell
20:00 Dinner
Day 2: June 9, 2015
9:30 – 11:00 Educational Choice, Incentives and Welfare
College Diversity and Investment Incentives, by Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros and Andrew F. Newman
Socio-economic status and enrollment in higher education: Do costs matter? by Koen Declercq and Frank Verboven
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:15 Re-matching
The Design of Teacher Assignment: Theory and Evidence, by Julien Combe, Olivier Tercieux and Camille Terrier
12:15 – 13:00 Panel discussion on matching practices (TBD)
13:30 Lunch
Scientific Committee: Dorothea Kübler, Antonio Miralles and Joana Pais
Registrations If you plan to attend the meeting (and are not a speaker), please contact Antonio Miralles at amirallesasensio@gmail.com
Venue: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Edifici Balmes, Carrer Balmes 132, Barcelona