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SUMMARY:Sam ALTMANN (University of Oxford) "Choice\, Welfare\, and Market Design. An Empirical Investigation of Feeding America’s Choice System"
DESCRIPTION:The Micro Seminar:\nTime: 12:15 pm – 13:30 pm\nDate: 18th of January 2023 \nRoom 3001 \nSam ALTMANN (University of Oxford) “Choice\, Welfare\, and Market Design. An Empirical Investigation of Feeding America’s Choice System” \nAbstract : Feeding America\, an organisation responsible for feeding 130\,000 Americans every day\, distributes donated food among a network of participating food banks. Feeding America’s allocation mechanism\, the ‘Choice System’\, uses first-price auctions to allow food banks to signal which types of food they need from Feeding America. This provides food banks a large degree of choice over the types of food they receive. This paper examines the welfare and distributional consequences of enabling this choice. I apply a dynamic auction model to Choice System bidding data\, estimating the distribution of food banks’ het-erogeneous and time-varying needs. I then use these estimates to compare the Choice System to the previous allocation mechanism employed by Feeding America which gave food banks very limited choice. I estimate that the Choice System increased welfare by the equivalent of a 17.1% increase in the quantity of food being allocated. \n  \nSponsors:\nCREST \n
URL:https://econ.ip-paris.fr/event/sam-altmann-university-of-oxford-choice-welfare-and-market-design-an-empirical-investigation-of-feeding-americas-choice-system/
CATEGORIES:Applied Seminar,Economics,Seminars
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