Matching market design is an interdisciplinary research area of Economics, Game Theory, and Computer Science. Based on the particular characteristics of the matching markets at hand, a first task is to determine the desirable properties that a satisfactory algorithm should satisfy. These...

We invite PhD students with projects that deal with issues on or related to the Summer School theme to apply for participation. We value a multi-disciplinary setting and welcome students from a range of academic disciplines, like sociology, economy, law, political science and (European) social...

The school targets PhD-students who have started or are about to start a project related to welfare and social policy in Eastern and Western Europe. Topics that will be addressed are the comparative analysis of welfare state and social policy reform, role of social actors, policies for work and...

Aim of the course is introducing students to the origins and developments of social policy, to principles and practices of benefit systems and social services, to European social policy, methods of comparative research, and to available quantitative and qualitative data sets.

The summer school is organised by Maastricht University, in cooperation with the partner universities and the institutes of Isprit network and the US-based network of the Multidisciplinary and Comparative Program in Inequality and Social Policy of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard...