The The Common Application and the DA Algorithm in School Assignmentprogram 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: Theory and Evidence from Mexican City High School Match, 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 | Policy Roundtable: Access to higher education: Issues and perspectives from the US and Europe |
| Christopher Avery (Harvard), Jari-Matti Riihelainen (Eurydice, European Commission) Chair: Estelle Cantillon | |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
Scientific Committee: Dorothea Kübler, Antonio Miralles and Joana Pais
Registration: If you are planning to attend please register at the following link
Venue: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Edifici Balmes, Carrer Balmes 132, Barcelona
This workshop is part of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. It is supported by the Severo Ochoa Research Program (SEV2011-0075).