Market Design Working Group Meeting

Michael Ostrovsky and Parag A. Pathak, Organizers

October 18-19, 2019

NBER, Feldstein Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Friday, October 18
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Supply Reduction in the Broadcast Incentive Auction (slides)
9:45 am	Machine Learning-Powered Iterative Combinatorial Auctions (slides)
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations
11:45 am	Choice and Consequence: Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools
12:30 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Evaluating with Statistics: Which Outcome Measures Differentiate Among Matching Mechanisms? (slides)
2:45 pm	Information Acquisition Costs in Matching Markets
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money
4:45 pm	Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Payment Reform
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Saturday, October 19
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Matching for the Israeli "Mechinot" Gap-Year Programs: Handling Rich Diversity Requirements
9:45 am	Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Design of Lotteries and Waitlists for Affordable Housing Allocation
11:45 am	Targeting In-Kind Transfers Through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation
12:30 pm	Adjourn
	FORMAT 35 mins presenter 10 mins discussion