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Fourth workshop “Matching in Practice”
November 15, 2012 - November 16, 2012
13 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:00 Welcome and news from the network
Session 1: School assignment
14:00 – 15:00 Atila Abdulkadiroğlu (Duke University)
“Centralized vs. Decentralized School Assignment: evidence from NYC”
(with Nikhil Agarwal, Harvard university and Parag Pathak, MIT)
Break
Session 2: Optimal admission policies: Considerations beyond the choice of algorithm
15:15 – 16:00 Karsten Albaek (Danish National Center for Social Research)
“Optimal admission to Higher Education”
16:00 – 16:45 Thomas Gall (Bonn University)
“Mismatch, rematch and investment”
(joint with Patrick Legros, ECARES and Andrew Newman, Boston University)
Break
Session 3: Equity concerns
17:00 – 17:45 Francis Bloch (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
« Mixité sociale in the Paris subsidized housing program”
(with David Cantala, El Colegio de Mexico)
17:45 – 18:30 John Coldron (Sheffield Hallam University)
“Access, justice and education: How does the notion of access participate in the characterization of injustice in relation to schooling”
Break
18:45-20:00 Roundtable: “The politics of school choice: how school choice procedures come to life and why?”
With Caterina Calsamiglia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), John Coldron (Sheffield Hallam University), and Jean-Pierre Verhaeghe (Ghent University, TBC)
Program details can be found here.