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Efficiency and equity in matching pre-schools and children: mechanism design approach

Efficiency and equity in matching pre-schools and children: mechanism design approach Workshop "Family policies in (Eastern, Central and Northern) Europe with the emphasis on Child Day-Care" 22. May 2014 14.00 to 17.30.

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Efficiency and equity in matching pre-schools and children: mechanism design approach

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  1. Efficiency and equity in matching pre-schools and children: mechanism design approachWorkshop "Family policies in (Eastern, Central and Northern) Europe with the emphasis on Child Day-Care" 22. May 201414.00 to 17.30

  2. Efficiency and equity in matching pre-schoolsand children: mechanism design approach • What this project is aiming at: • Applying ‘theoretically enlighten’ policies in matching children and pre-schools (kindergartens, day-cares) • Learning from neighbours ‘best practices’ • WP1: Modern family policy • Gender perspective • Work-life balance • WP2: Current matching mechanisms • Failures of current semi-centralised mechanisms (allocation principle) • Recommendations (from literature) of designing fair mechanism • WP3: Policy implications • How application (fair mechanism) can contribute to gender equality and work-life balance; • How universal are recommendations (how central should market be)?

  3. Outline 14.00-14.45Kadri Simm"Theories of (Distributive) Justice – what, for whom and why?" 14.45-15.30Triin Lauri "Working mothers and high fertility – what conditions affect the positive outcome of the contemporary family policy?" 15.30-16.15Triin Roosalu & Karmo Kroos "Known and unknown aspects about the family polices in soviet and post-soviet Central and Eastern Europe„ 16.15-17.00Per Isaksen, Heidi Ųstland Vala & IngunnSęlid Sell “Gender perspectives and the practical organisation of the day-care practices – Norwegian case” 17.00 – 17.30 Discussion “Gender perspectives and the practical organisation of the day-care practices, diffusion of the ideas – Estonian case” Warm-up Helbe Põdder“Attitudes of work-life-balance andthe context of family policy: Sweden, Finland, Estonia”

  4. Discussion:Gender perspectives and the practical organisation of the day-care practices, diffusion of the ideasEstonian case • What we can learn from comparative (system level analysis)? • What can we learn from Norway? • If even Nordics have also many paths to ‘good outcome’ then how many more there can be? • Local vs central policies? • How our choices are affected by post-communist path-dependent policies and institutions/attitudes? • Do attitudes matter? Do attitudes construct policies, or policies attitudes? Or is this meaningful question after all? • Everybody is wanting to rely on fairness? What is fairness? • Gender (equal opportunities in the labour market) • The right of families (vs. pro-natalism) to make decisions? Family as an agent or a institution? • Equal opportunities to children (ECEC – more care, more education) • Can fertility (pro-natalism) be ultimate aim (or any other state level ‘political objective’, i.e. incentives for imposing dual-earner family model)? • Positive discrimination – justice as fairness (2nd principle) and other justifications.

  5. http://www.ttu.ee/projects/EEMD THANK YOU ALL!

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