题目：Chinese College Admissions Reforms: An Empirical Evaluation

主讲人：江明, 上海交通大学

时间：2019年10月14日，13:30-15:00

地点：暨南大学中惠楼106B室

主讲人简介：

江明博士现任上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院经济系副教授。他于上海交通大学获得金融学学士学位，美国密西根大学获得博士学位。他的研究领域为实验经济学、行为经济学与市场设计。他的论文发表于Management Science，Games and Economic Behavior，Experimental Economics等国际期刊。

Abstract:

The last twenty years have witnessed radical reforms in the Chinese college admissions system, with many provinces moving from the “sequential” (Immediate Acceptance) to various versions of the “parallel” college admissions mechanisms. We evaluate the old and new mechanisms with naturally-occurring data. Using a natural experiment in Sichuan Province which implemented a partial reform, we find that, in the year after the province adopted the parallel mechanism in its Tier 1 college admissions, students listed more colleges in their rank-ordered list, and more prestigious colleges as their top choices. Consequently, the matching outcome is more stable. Our results indicate that the parallel mechanism is less manipulable and more stable than its Immediate Acceptance predecessor.