Thursday, June 18, 2015

Freakonomics podcast on Who Gets What and Why

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Stephen Dubner came to visit me in Palo Alto to talk about my new book . He also interviewed some other people, including Ruthann Leishman ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

San Francisco is becoming a center for kidney exchange

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UCSF Medical Center, CPMC Join Forces for 18-Patient Kidney Transplant Chain "A unique collaboration between UCSF Medical Center and...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Alex Tabarrok reviews Who Gets What and Why in the WSJ

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Who Gets What and Why  is reviewed very generously by Alex Tabarrok in the Wall Street Journal : Matchmaker, Make Me a Market--In some ma...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Same sex marriages, south of the border

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The revolution in reversing an ancient repugnance is quieter there: With Little Fanfare, Mexican Supreme Court Effectively Legalizes Same-...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

College admissions, as seen by the Chronicle of Higher Ed

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has a long roundup of thoughts on college admissions:  College Admissions, Frozen in Time They describe...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Review of living kidney donor outcomes, in The Lancet

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In The Lancet Volume 385, Issue 9981, 16–22 May 2015, Pages 2003–2013 Living kidney donation: outcomes, ethics, and uncertainty Dr Pete...
Friday, June 12, 2015

video: “Who Gets What – and Why: The New Economics of Matching and Market Design"

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For those of you who have little idea about what goes on at a book talk--which was my situation a week ago--here's a video of the fir...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Interview about WGWaW:

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Here's the text of an interview about Who Gets What and Why , with Nancy Shute at NPR's Shots--Health News: How An Economist Helpe...

Who gets what and why interview

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Here's an interview I gave last week in New York, at Quartz (qz.com): The hidden economic rules behind Tinder, marriage, kidneys, ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Is sniping bad for eBay? New paper by Bakus, Blak, Masterov and Tadelis

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Is Sniping A Problem For Online Auction Markets? by Matt Backus, Tom Blak,  Dimitriy V. Masterov, and Steve Tadelis Abstract: "A com...

Liver transplant waiting times and MELD scores around the country (and a calculator you can use)

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Here's a story in the Wisconsin State Journal: Access to liver transplants unequal in Wisconsin, nation  . (Link to a liver calculator ...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

12th International Naturalistic Decision Making Conference--June 9-12

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12th International Naturalistic Decision Making Conference   (I'm scheduled to speak Wednesday morning...to human factors engineers) ...

Interview about Who Gets What and Why

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Here is the link to a 30 minute audio podcast of an interview about my new book Who Gets What and Why : https://soundcloud.com/chrisriback...

Marketplace Innovation Workshop, Columbia U, June 10 2015

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This looks like an exciting conference, I would go if I weren't already committed to be elsewhere... "Marketplace Innovation&q...
Monday, June 8, 2015

More Money, More Problems? Can High Pay Be Coercive and Repugnant?

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One of the places where medical ethicists' intuitions are most different from those of economists is whether certain monetary transacti...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Indianapolis schools discuss universal enrollment

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Market design first steps:  Report: IPS, Indy Charter Schools Should Use Same Enrollment Application " A report out this week is urg...