5th July 2024

London Workshop on School Choice

at City, University of London

Date: 5th July 2024

Location: City, University of London, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB, Room B200

Local organiser: Claudia Cerrone

09:30 –10:00 Registration and Breakfast

10:00 - 10:30 Emma Duchini (University of Essex)

School Management Takeover, Leadership Change and Personnel Policy (with Victor Lavy, Stephen Machin and Shqiponja Telhaj)

10:30 - 11:00 Peter Katuščák (RWTH Aachen University)

Reducing Complexity in Strategy-proof Matching Mechanisms: The Role of Framing (with Roy Chen, Thomas Kittsteiner and Katharina Kütter)

11:00 –11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00 Yoan Hermstrüwer (University of Zurich)

What Drives School Admissions Appeals? (with Claudia Cerrone and Josué Ortega)

12:00 - 12:30 Lorenzo Neri (University of St Andrews)

Should you Meet the Parents? The impact of information on non-test score attributes on school choice

12:30 - 13:00 Olmo Silva (LSE)

School Types

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Roundtable with Peter Gasparelli (Sutton Local Authority), Paul Stemp (Merton Local Authority), Jan Baines (North Northamptonshire Local Authority) and Claire Potier (Surrey Local Authority)

Chair: Anne West (LSE)

15:00 - 15:30 Rustamdjan Hakimov (University of Lausanne)

Confidence and College Applications: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention (joint with Renke Schmacker and Camille Terrier)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 Keynote: Antonio Miralles (University of Messina and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Bayesian School Choice: Welfare comparisons of Immediate Acceptance and Deferred Acceptance 

17:00 - 17:30 Elaine Drayton (IFS)

The Impact of School Catchment Areas on Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools: Evidence from Scotland and England (with Ellen Greaves and Gennaro Rossi)


 18:00 Drinks and dinner at Dame Alice Owen