| 主讲人 |
Toru Kitagawa |
简介 |
<p>There are many contexts in economics where productivity and welfare performances of institutions and policies depend on who matches with whom. Examples include matching of caseworkers and job seekers in job search assistance programs, medical doctors and patients, teachers and students, attorneys and defendants, tax auditors and taxpayers, among others. Although reallocation of individuals through a change in matching policy can be less costly than directly training personnel or offering a new program, methods for learning optimal matching policies and their statistical performances are less studied. This paper develops a method to learn welfare optimal matching policies for two-sided matching problems in which a planner centrally prescribes who should match with whom based on individual’s observable characteristics of the two sides. We formulate the learning problem as an empirical optimal transport with the match cost function estimated from training data, and propose to estimate an optimal matching policy by optimizing the entropy regularized empirical welfare criterion. We derive a welfare regret bound of the estimated policy and characterize its convergence. We apply our proposal to the assignment problem of caseworkers to job seekers for a job search assistance program, and assess its welfare performance in a simulation study calibrated with French administrative data.</p> |
| 时间 |
2025-06-10 (Tuesday) 16:30-18:00 |
地点 |
厦大经济楼C108（线下分会场）、中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院南楼N204、腾讯会议 ID：977 654 714 |
| 讲座语言 |
English |
主办单位 |
厦门大学邹至庄经济研究院、厦门大学-中国科学院计量建模与经济政策研究基础科学中心、中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院预测科学研究中心、中国科学院大学经济与管理学院 |
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系列讲座 |
| 联系人信息 |
许老师，电话：2182991，邮箱：ysxu@xmu.edu.cn |
主持人 |
洪永淼 |
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| 主讲人简介 |
<p>Toru Kitagawa教授现为布朗大学经济系讲席教授，主要研究领域包括因果推断、统计决策、贝叶斯方法、模型平均以及宏观计量经济学等。他的研究成果发表于多个国际顶级学术期刊，如Quarterly Journal of Economics、Econometrica、Review of Economics and Statistics、Journal of Econometrics、Quantitative Economics、Journal of Business and Economic Statistics以及Journal of Economic Theory等。Kitagawa教授现任Journal of Applied Econometrics、Econometric Reviews与Journal of Business and Economic Statistics的副主编，并曾担任The Review of Economic Studies和Journal of Econometrics的副主编。</p> |
期数 |
“邹至庄讲座”杰出学者论坛（第59期） |
