I did not anticipate this level of success, a program that completed in 3 years more exchanges than all conducted in the world combined in the previous 20 years. Most congratulations go to our partners in Malatya Inonu University.
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One my favorite college professors, Joe Nye, passed very recently. He developed the concept of soft power in international relations.

Two of the strongest sources of US soft power were international aid and higher ed. The Republican administration has utterly destroyed both. Ask yourself why.

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Using French data, we demonstrate that our mechanism reduces the teacher experience gap across regions more effectively than benchmarks, including the current mechanism, while
providing higher average welfare for teachers.

To evaluate the performance of our mechanism, we focus on teacher (re)assignment, where the unequal distribution of experienced teachers across schools is a well-documented concern.

We justify our constructive and practical approach by micro-founding it through the theory of inequality measures in welfare economics.

Centralized (re)assignment of workers to jobs is increasingly common in public and private sectors. However, these markets often suffer from distributional problems. We propose a new strategy-proof mechanism that efficiently improves individual and distributional
welfare over the status quo.