【日 時】2019年1月22日（火）10：40 – 12：10
Tuesday, January 22., 10:40 – 12：10
【場 所】早稲田大学 早稲田キャンパス3号館12階1213
Venue Discussion Room 1213 on the 12th floor of Building 3 (Waseda Campus)
【Presenter】Dr. Tong WANG
(Assistant Professor, WIAS, Waseda University)
HP: https://sites.google.com/site/websiteoftongwang/
【Title】Purchasing Seats for High School Admissions in China
【Abstract】For more than 15 years, many Chinese cities have provided students the option to pay higher tuition to acquire seats in their desired schools in their centralized public school admission procedure. Real-life matching mechanisms with the option to purchase seats are not strategy proof, and may generate inefficient and unstable outcomes. This study combines administrative data on high school admissions with survey data from China to estimate the students’ preferences over schools and tuition. The counterfactual analysis indicates that the change from the deferred acceptance mechanism to the existing matching mechanism with the option to purchase seats may benefit moderately performing students, but may reduce the welfare of top students. If the deferred acceptance mechanism is replaced by the Student Optimal Purchasing Seats mechanism (SOPS), then all student groups will experience slight welfare loss. By contrast, schools will collect significantly more tuition with minimal change in the quality of admitted students under SOPS.
【招聘教員】野口晴子先生・河村耕平先生
Organizer Dr. Haruko Noguchi and Dr. Kohei Kawamura
