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Sixth workshop Matching in Practice
December 16, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - December 17, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
Scientific program
Day 1 (Monday Dec 16, 2013)
| 12 pm | Lunch |
| 1:40 – 1:40 pm | Welcome |
| 1:40 – 2:40 pm | Keynote presentation |
| Marc Gurgand (Paris School of Economics) | |
| “Adjusting your dreams? The effect of school and peers on dropout behaviour”
(with Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin) |
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| 2:40 – 3:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Session 1: New research questions in matching |
| Aytek Erdil (Cambridge university) | |
| “Prioritizing diversity in school choice” (with Taro Kumano) | |
| David Manlove (University of Glasgow) | |
| “Socially stable matchings in the hospital / residents problems” (with G. Askalidis, N. immorlica, A. Kwanashie and E. Pountourakis) | |
| 4:30 – 5:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 5:00 – 6:30 pm | Session 2: Preferences and information in school choice |
| Iftikar Hussain (University of Sussex) | |
| “Not just test scores: parents’ demand responses to school quality information“ | |
| Olivier Tercieux (Paris School of Economics) | |
| “Efficiency and stability in arge matching markets” (with YK Che) | |
| 6:30 – 6:40 pm | Short break |
| 6:40 – 7:10 pm |
Focus session: Insights and research opportunities from the 2012 PISA survey Pablo Zoido (OECD) |
| 7:30 pm | Dinner |
Day 2 (Tuesday, Dec 17, 2013)
| 9:00 – 10:30 am | Session 3: Choice, reoptimization and path-dependence in matching |
| Koen Declercq (KU Leuven) | |
| “Participation and efficiency in higher education with ex-post screening” (with Frank Verboven) | |
| Daniel Monte (Sao Paulo School of Economics) | |
| “Dynamic matching in large markets” (with John Kennes and Norovsambuu) | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 am | Session 4: Market heuristics in the presence of couples |
| Péter Biró (Hungarian Academy of Science) | |
| “Matching couples with scraf’s algorithm” (with M. Fleiner and R. Irving) | |
| 11:45 – 12:45 pm |
Roundtable “The market for teachers in France” |
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Francis Bloch (Université Paris I and Paris School of Economics) |
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Catherine Moisan (Head of statistical department, French Ministry of Education) |
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Corinne Prost (INSEE) |
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| 12:45- 2 pm | Lunch |
The detailed program can be also downloaded here.
Scientific committee: Estelle Cantillon (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Julien Grent (Paris School of Economics), Marc Gurgand (Paris School of Economics) and Antonio Miralles (Universidad Autonomà de Barcelona)