Showing posts with label papers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label papers. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2024

If I don't do it someone else will: markets and morals

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  Here's a paper reporting an experiment that suggests that people are more willing to ignore the negative externalities they impose on ...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Income inequality, risk, and repugnance by Hauge, Kverndokk, and Lange

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Two recent papers by   Karen Hauge ,  Snorre Kverndokk , and  Andreas Lange  report on the roles played by inequality and risk in causing re...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Practical market design makes policy recommendations (which can violate NBER publication policy)

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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) publishes a widely read series of working papers, before publication in refereed journals. T...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Behavioral market design (in the JEP)

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 The Fall 2024  Journal of Economic Perspective s has three papers on behavioral market design: Symposium: Behavioral Incentive Compatibi...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Stability vs. No Justified Envy, by Romm, Roth and Shorrer

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  Here's a recent paper that clarifies some of the prior literature on comparing stability in two-sided matching with a related kind of ...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Kim Krawiec interview about WHO demands for national self sufficiency in blood donation and kidney exchange

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  The University of Virginia takes note of the recent Krawiec & Roth paper I blogged about in August . Here is their interview with Kim ...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Many preference signals as a soft cap on number of applications in medical residency matching

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  Here's a review article on matching for medical residents,  with particular attention to neurosurgery, in the Cureus Journal of Medica...
Monday, September 23, 2024

A 40 year old proof about top trading cycles is corrected (by two Berkeley grad students)

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 Science (and math) can be self-correcting, sometimes slowly.  Here's an article that corrects the first proof that the top trading cycl...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

More on non-anonymous kidney exchange in India

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 Here's some further description of how kidney exchange is conducted in India without authorization* to use nondirected donors (so that ...
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Simulating kidney exchange policies in Germany

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 Here are a set of simulations designed to help Germany establish a national (rather than a fragmented) kidney exchange system. Itai Ashlagi...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Incentives matter for getting participation in clinical trials by low income households

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  Here's a study that casts some light (via a randomized experiment) on the importance of incentives to get representative participation...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient In (Unremunerated) Organs And Blood, by Krawiec and Roth

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 Requiring national self sufficiency in blood and plasma supplies is particularly hard on low and middle income countries, as is limiting th...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Crowding in School Choice, By William Phan, Ryan Tierney, and Yu Zhou

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  Here's an innovative paper in the latest AER. The authors use North Carolina's Wake County Public School System as a motivating ex...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

An Experimental Study of the Chinese Organ Allocation System

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 China presently has a low rate of organ donations per million population, so there's a lot of room for growth.  Here's a study sugg...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Performance Feedback and Organ Donor Registrations, by House, Lacetera, Macis, and Mazar.

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 When you register for a driver's license in the U.S., you fill out a form that has an opportunity to register as an organ donor. Did th...