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Conference in Memory of YingHua He

Matching Markets Education Economics Structural Microeconomics

Conference Overview
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A conference in memory of YingHua He will be held on July 7–8, 2025, organized by the Paris School of Economics, the Centre de recherche en économie et statistique (CREST), and the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
The event will bring together researchers to discuss advances in matching theory and empirical applications, especially in education and labor markets.

Conference Details
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Dates: Monday–Tuesday, July 7–8, 2025
Venue: Paris School of Economics
Address: 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France — Room R2-21 / Zoom
Participation: In-person and online
Hours: 08:30 – 14:00

Please register here before July 4, 2025, and select your attendance mode.

Organizers
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  • Paris School of Economics
  • CREST
  • Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Supported by the ANR project RECHC – ANR-20-CE26-0011-01 and the ERC grant EDDYNCHOICE – Grant Agreement No. 101162723.

Conference Program
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Monday, July 7, 2025
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08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Coffee

09:00 – 10:30 SESSION 1

  • Bernard Salanié (Columbia University)
    Empirical Methods for Matching with Transferable Utility: A Progress Report
    with Pierre-André Chiappori and Linh Nguyen

  • Hessel Oosterbeek (University of Amsterdam)
    Using Principal Stratification to Analyze Repeated Treatment Assignment
    with Nadine Ketel, Edwin Leuven, and Bas van der Klaauw

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 SESSION 2

  • Marek Pycia (University of Zurich)
    Ordinal and Cardinal Allocation Mechanisms: A Progress Report

  • Antonio Miralles (Università degli Studi di Messina)
    Within Public School Segregation: A Simple Model and an Application to Italian Schools

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 3

  • Arnaud Maurel (Duke University)
    Sequential College Admission Mechanisms and Off-Platform Options
    with Olivier De Groote, Anaïs Fabre, and Margaux Luflade

  • Chao Fu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    Information, Match Quality, and Priority Rules in Student-School Assignment
    with Dong Woo Hahm and Minseon Park

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30 SESSION 4

  • Dorothea Kübler (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
    Fairness in Matching Markets: Experimental Evidence
    with Tobias König and Lydia Mechtenberg

  • Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
    Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter
    with Jingyi Qiu, Alain Cohn, and Alvin Roth

19:00 – 21:00 Dinner

Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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08:30 – 09:00 Welcome Coffee

09:00 – 10:30 SESSION 5

  • Shruti Sinha (Amazon)
    Identification and Estimation in Many-to-One Two-Sided Matching without Transfers
    with YingHua He (Rice University) and Xiaoting Sun (Simon Fraser University)

  • Estelle Cantillon (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
    Modifying Priorities for More Equitable Outcomes in England
    with Simon Burgess (Bristol), Mariagrazia Cavallo (University of Luxembourg), and Ellen Greaves (University of Exeter)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 SESSION 6

  • Olivier De Groote (TSE)
    Matching Disadvantaged Children to Day Care: Evidence from a Centralized Platform
    with Minyoung Rho

  • Fuhito Kojima (The University of Tokyo)
    How to Integrate Fragmented Matching Markets for Welfare Improvement

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch