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