Conference “Matching, Theory and Estimation” Sciences Po, 56 rue des St Peres, Paris September 26-27, 2013 Sponsored by ERC (Grants WASP and ECOMATCH) and CEMMAP The conference starts on Thursday morning, September 26, and ends up on Friday, September 27. Coffee and refreshments will be available but lunch is not provided. There are plenty of restaurants near the conference venue. Thursday, September 26 9:30 – 11:00 Maximiliano Dvorkin (Yale): " Sectoral Shocks, Reallocation and Unemployment in Competitive Labor Markets " Carlos Carillo-Tudela (Essex): "Worker Mobility in a Search Model with Adverse Selection". 11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 – 12:45 Ran Gu (UCL): "The Dynamics of Worker Flows with Endogenous Labor Force Participation" Brent Hickman (Chicago): "Pre-college Human Capital Investment and Affirmative Action: A Structural Policy Analysis of US College Admissions" 12:45 – 15:00 Lunch 15:00 – 16:30 Thibaut Lamadon (UCL): "Matching, Sorting and Wages" Rasmus Lentz (Wisconsin): "Optimal Wage-Tenure Contracts Without Search Intensity Commitment" 16:30 – 16:45 Coffee break 16:45 – 18:15 Markus Riegler (LSE): "Multi-Worker Firms and Size Adjustment Costs” Jeremy Fox (Michigan): "Unobserved Heterogeneity in Matching Games" 19:30 – Conference diner Friday, September 27 9:30 – 11:00 Marion Goussé (Sciences Po): "Marriage Market and Intra-Household Allocation" Raicho Bojilov (Ecole Polytechnique): "Multivariate Matching" 11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 – 12:45 Michael Graber (UCL): "Labour Market Frictions, Human Capital and Consumption Inequality" Espen Moen (BI): “Household Formation and Labor Supply” 12:45 – 15:00 Lunch 15:00 – 16:30 Ilse Lindenlaub (EUI): "Sorting Multidimensional Types" John Knowles (Southampton): "Dynamic Squeezing: Marriage and Fertility in France After World War One" 16:30 – 16:45 Coffee break 16:45 – 18:15 Chloe Qianzi Zeng (Oxford): “Matching with Contracts: An Efficient Marriage Market?” Konrad Menzel (NYU): “Large Matching Markets as Two-Sided Demand Systems” Other participants (attending but not presenting): Andrew Chesher (UCL) Arnaud Dupuy (CEPS/INSTEAD) Jan Eeckhout (UCL) Alice Kuegler (PhD student, Cambridge) Jeremy Lise (UCL) Lars Nesheim (UCL) Fabien Postel-Vinay (UCL) Bernard Salanié (Columbia) Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po) Alireza Sepahsalari (PhD student, UCL) e-mail addresses Bernard Salanie bs2237@columbia.edu, arnauddupuy74@gmail.com, raicho.bojilov@polytechnique.edu, julien.prat@ensae.fr, Carlos Carrillo <cocarr@essex.ac.uk>, Jan Eeckhout <j.eeckhout@ucl.ac.uk>, Jeremy Lise <j.lise@ucl.ac.uk>, Fabien POSTEL-VINAY <Fabien.Postel-Vinay@bristol.ac.uk>, Kramarz Francis <Francis.Kramarz@ensae.fr>, Etienne WASMER <etienne.wasmer@sciences-po.fr>, Lars Nesheim <l.nesheim@ucl.ac.uk>, "Coles, Melvyn G" <mcole@essex.ac.uk>, PA Chiappori <pc2167@columbia.edu>, Rasmus Lentz <rlentz@ssc.wisc.edu>, thomas breda <breda.thomas@gmail.com>, Martin Weidner <m.weidner@ucl.ac.uk>, Andrew Chesher <andrew.chesher@ucl.ac.uk>, M.Riegler@lse.ac.uk, Zsofia Barany <zsofia.barany@sciences-po.org>, Alice Kuegler <aek31@cam.ac.uk>, Ran Gu <uctprgu@live.ucl.ac.uk>, Thibaut LAMADON <thibaut.lamadon@gmail.com>, Marion Goussé <marion.gousse@gmail.com>, To Maxime <Maxime.To@ensae.fr>, ilse.lindenlaub@eui.eu, j.a.knowles@soton.ac.uk, Michael Graber <Michael.Graber.09@ucl.ac.uk>, Maximiliano Dvorkin <maximiliano.dvorkin@yale.edu>, "konrad.menzel" <konrad.menzel@nyu.edu>, Jeremy Fox <jeremyfox@gmail.com>, Brent Hickman hickmanbr@uchicago.edu Qianzi ZENG Qianzi.ZENG@nuffield.ox.ac.uk Aureo de Paula < a.paula@ucl.ac.uk> Sepahsalari, Alireza alireza.sepahsalari.09@ucl.ac.uk Espen Moen espen.r.moen@bi.no