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7th Workshop Matching in Practice
June 16, 2014 @ 12:00 pm - June 17, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
Our seventh workshop will take place in Berlin from June 16 around noon till June 17 noon. The program combines theoretical and empirical work on school choice and other matching applications. The topic for our traditional roundtable will be “University Admissions in Germany”
12:30 – 13:30 Registration and lunch
13:30 – 15:45 School choice: empirics
Monique de Haan, Pieter Gautier, Hessel Oosterbeek, and Bas van der Klaauw
Matching pupils to secondary schools in Amsterdam: An empirical evaluation using administrative and survey data
Anna Makles and Kerstin Schneider
Much Ado about Nothing? The Role of Primary School Catchment Areas for Ethnic School Segregation. Evidence from a Policy Reform
Gabrielle Fack, Julien Grenet, and Yinghua He
Estimating Preferences in School Choice Mechanisms: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Approaches
15.45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:45 Welfare in matching mechanisms
Li Chen
Centralized University Admissions with Information
Isa Hafalir and Antonio Miralles
Welfare-Maximizing Assignment of Agents to Hierarchical Positions
19:00 Dinner
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
9:30 – 11:15 Preference manipulation in school choice mechanisms
Timo Mennle and Sven Seuken
The Adaptive Boston Mechanism
David Cantala and Juan Sebastian Pereyra
The Effects of Preferences Manipulations Under the Boston Mechanism
Umut Dur and Onur Kesten
Appeals Process in New York City High School Match
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:45 Round Table Discussion: University Admissions in Germany
Dr. Matthias Bode, Stiftung für Hochschulzulassung, Dortmund
Dr. Alexander Rindfleisch, Technische Universität Berlin, Referat für Zulassung und Immatrikulation
Moderator: Yinghua He
12:45 Lunch and end of workshop
Venue
Room A300, WZB, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin