Friday, April 30, 2010

It's 20 years since 1990 (and there's a conference to prove it)

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A conference with the daunting title Roth and Sotomayor: Twenty Years After has been organized at Duke next week by Atila Abdulkadiroglu , ...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Polygamous marriage in Gaza

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A report from Gaza in The Economist focuses on a polygamous wedding agency. "In his crisp fourth floor office, Mr Atiri and I leafed t...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Dan Ariely in Forbes

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Dan Ariely known for his creative experiments (and now famous for his book Predictably Irrational , and with another book on the way) is pro...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Artificial intelligence and market design

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Abe Othman , a grad student in CS at CMU (who took my market design course when he was an undergrad at Harvard), has a new, not always pc bl...

Subscription dating sites: matching versus recruiting

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The proprieters of the (apparently no-fee) online dating site OKCupid have a blog in which they analyze their copious data in interesting ...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Misc. repugnant transactions

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Repugnant transactions are those that some people don't want others to engage in. Here are a few that caught my eye recently. Double fee...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Faculty-student liasons repugnant at Yale

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From the Yale alumni magazine: University bans faculty-student sex "After more than a quarter century of debate, Yale faculty membe...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

College rankings: how they influence applicants, and colleges

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A recent paper discusses the impact of the US News and World Report rankings of colleges: " Why is First Best? Responses to Information...

Assortative dating

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Specialty dating sites are nothing new; and here's a story about one that specializes in beauty: Beautiful dating events: ‘It’s not shal...
Friday, April 23, 2010

More on kidney donation and social networking

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It continues to look like social networking may become big for kidney donation . Here's a recent story from New England: Conn. mayor don...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

The WSJ on the football draft and market design

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Writing in the Sports section of the Wall Street Journal, Reed Albergotti considers the NFL player draft, and some possible alternatives. Wh...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

BBC on Suppliers of Human Bodies

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The BBC has aired a 20 minute piece on Suppliers of Human Bodies . You can listen to it here . The first interviewee is my HBS colleague Mic...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Games, a new online game theory journal

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This announcement came in today's email. Dear All, The first issue of Games, dated March 2010, has been published and is available under...
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The Market and Marketization

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I'm following at a distance a series of workshops in Helsinki on the philosophy and sociology of economics: The Market and Marketization...
Monday, April 19, 2010

A living lung donor is running today in the Boston marathon

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A stranger, a gift, and a marathon miracle: Ellyn Cohen needed a lung to live, then a woman she’d never met offered hers "It was an unu...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Civet coffee

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Here's a story from the NY Times that, if published on April 1, would have won a prize. From Dung to Coffee Brew With No Aftertaste &quo...
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Live kidney donation via twitter and other social networking sites

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For many years the transplant community was very uneasy about solicitation of live kidney donors, but that seems to be changing. Web sites l...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Boston Globe on school choice

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The problem with school choice is not enough seats at good schools. And in every city I've dealt with, there are two political parties w...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Matching with preferences for colleagues

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Marek Pycia at UCLA has a revised paper on matching when you care who your colleagues are: Stability and Preference Alignment in Matching an...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Waiting lists

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A pessimistic story in the NY Times about college admissions waiting lists, which are long this year: For Students, a Waiting List Is Scant ...