Associate Professor Tingting Ding, a member of the Behavioral and Experimental Economics group of SOE, recently had her paper accepted for publication by Economic Journal, which is a renowned authoritative international journal and an A journal in economics as listed by SUFE.
The paper “Learning and Mechanism Design: An Experimental Test of School Matching Mechanism with Intergenerational Advice” is coauthored with Professor Andrew Schotter from New York University. The research uses laboratory experiments to study the influence of repeated games and intergenerational advice upon school choice participants in Gale-Shapley Deferred-Acceptance mechanism and Boston Immediate-Acceptance mechanism. It reveals that the actual effects of market design mechanism may deviate greatly from the theoretical prediction; the disadvantaged group in particular will find it difficult to make optimal choices through intergenerational learning, which requires timely detection and intervention of policy-makers.
As is reported, Associate Professor Tingting Ding had one paper published on the A journal, Games and Economic Behavior, in 2016, and is currently hosting one NSFC project (National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Project) and one Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program project.
In recent years, the SOE has made special efforts to bring in and cultivate excellent talents in behavioral and experimental economics with the purpose of building a world first-class research team of the frontier discipline. So far, the team has 5 papers published in top economics journals (2 in American Economic Review, 2 in Econometrica, and 1 in Quarterly Journal of Economics), 6 papers in A journals, 5 NSFC projects, and 1 NSSFC project (National Social Science Fund of China), becoming one of the strongest and most energetic research team in this area at home.
