Thursday, September 2, 2010

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

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That's the title of a paper that Judd Kessler and I recently finished, motivated by one aspect of organ donation in Singapore (and rece...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The wheels of justice and Ladies' Nights

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A year ago today I blogged about a lawyer who objected to differential pricing for the two sides of a matching market: he didn't like &...
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Further consequences of the unraveling of the market for law grads

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The NY Times reports that some of the young lawyers who were made permanent offers after their second year summer associateships in August 2...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The market for human wombs

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While the unregulated market for human eggs in Cyprus may be one of the busiest in the world, the more labor intensive market for surrogate ...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

The market for human eggs

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Here's a multifaceted article on the global market for human eggs and fertility treatment, with medical tourists flowing from countries...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Law reviews and the declining cost of submission

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Jacqueline Lipton at The Faculty Lounge has a post advising new law profs on Placing a First Law Review Article . Even though I've writt...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

Why study social science?

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That was the question I was asked to help answer this afternoon, as part of a panel discussing the Social Sciences at Harvard, for incoming ...

A marriage market in Iraq

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Wanted: Jihadists to Marry Widows "BAQUBA, Iraq — A snippet of news from a shadowy corner of Iraq : Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia recently...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

The market for attention: recommender engines for Twitter

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How to decide what to pay attention to? A paper discusses several possible models for recommender engines for tweets: Short and Tweet: Exper...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

The regulated market for cemeteries

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The NY Times reports, City Cemeteries Face Gridlock . "More than 50 years have passed since a major cemetery was established within t...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Intellectual property as trade secrets

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How are English muffins baked?  It's a trade secret, and one surrounded with hints of espionage:  A Man With Muffin Secrets, but No Job ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Medical resident training regulations

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Dr. Pauline Chen, writing in the NY Times, describes the new regulations about the training of medical residents: Someone to Watch Over Me ...
Monday, August 23, 2010

Some politicians love their spouses

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Bettina Klaus points me to the following cheerful story: Germany's opposition leader breaks from politics to donate kidney to wife: Fran...

Interdisciplinary research

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Practical market design is almost by definition an interdisciplinary activity, and fortunately Economics as an academic discipline revels in...
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Easing into a national kidney paired donation program

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UNOS has a press release on the progress being made towards setting up a national kidney exchange program, headlined Getting it Right: Kidne...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

In Egypt, marrying an Israeli is a repugnant transaction

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Egyptians Married to Israelis to Lose Citizenship "CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld a ruling that orders the...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Online real estate markets: Yahoo and Zillow

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Yahoo Pairs with Zillow on Real Estate Listings "The deal also helps Yahoo and Zillow challenge Move Inc. (MOVE), owner of Realtor.co...
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A four-way exchange in basketball

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A regular reader alerts me to a four-way exchange in basketball (for all of you who thought those were just for kidney exchange:) "We...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Roommate matching and the social internet

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Roommate matching continues to evolve, with Facebook playing a key role:  Students Turn to Online Roommate Matching Services to Avoid Getti...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Pet food

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Luke Stein at Stanford points me to Brian Palmer's column in Slate about where it is illegal to eat pets:  Is it legal to eat your cat? ...
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