Séminaire Microéconomie : Tous les mercredis
Heure : 12h15 – 13h30
Date : 05/11/2026
Salle : 3001

Battal Doğan (Bristol) – “When geography shapes preferences: redesigning teacher assignment in Italy”

CV : We investigate Italy’s centralized teacher assignment system where teachers can rank “geographical regions”, leading to ties in their rank order lists (ROLs). We show that the way ties in teachers’ ROLs are resolved in the current assignment mechanism systematically violates teachers’ priority rights and results in justified envy. We propose a new mechanism, Deferred Acceptance with Hierarchical Choice (DA-HC), which is strategy-proof, eliminates justified envy, and Pareto improves over the benchmark deferred acceptance mechanism with simple tie-breaking (DA-STB). Using administrative data, we provide evidence that DA-HC can potentially bring significant welfare improvements over the benchmark DA-STB.

Organisateurs :

Julien COMBE (Pôle d’Economie du CREST)
​​​​​​​​​​​​Yves Le YAOUANQ (Pôle d’Economie du CREST)
​​​​​​​​​Matias NUNEZ (Pôle d’Economie du CREST)

Commanditaires :
CREST