时间：2022年11月23日 14:30

地点：腾讯会议,会议号： 825-721-341

主讲人：姚澜

题目：Two-stage Chinese College Admission

摘要：The college admission system of China has used a two-stage procedure to match high school seniors with colleges for decades. The first stage sends students’ applications to colleges, with each student being sent to at most one college. The second stage assigns each college’s applicants to its majors. It is remarkable that students who are rejected in the second stage cannot send applications to the other colleges in their rank-order lists, which incentivizes students to accept major transfer options to increase the chance of being matched. We study the current form of the two-stage procedure called Chinese Parallel Mechanism (CPM) and demonstrate its flaws. We propose an improvement called Rectified Parallel Mechanism (RPM) by combining the two stages of CPM into one stage. We extend our analyses to an ongoing reform in China and compare a new mechanism (IPM) that allows students to freely rank majors in different colleges with CPM and RPM. We conduct lab experiments to test our theory and quantify the differences between the three mechanisms. Experimental data show that the major transfer acceptance rate under RPM (63%) is significantly lower than that under CPM (97%). The three mechanisms are close in efficiency, but IPM outperforms the others in fairness and RPM lies in between.

主讲人介绍：姚澜，巴塞罗那自治大学经济学博士，上海财经大学经济学院教授，博士生导师。主要研究领域为行为经济学、实验经济学、应用微观经济学。研究方向主要集中在行为博弈中的亲社会行为、组织机构和市场机制设计、个人风险与不确定性下的决策等。近年来在Quarterly Journal of Economics、Quantitative Economics、European Economic Review、《经济研究》等期刊发表多篇论文。曾获得教育部第八届高等学校科学研究优秀成果二等奖，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、国家自然科学基金青年项目、教育部人文社会科学基金等。担任Management Science、Economic Journal等国际期刊审稿人。