Friday, September 4, 2015

Tie breaking in unbalanced matching markets--a new paper by Itai Ashlagi and Afshin Nikzad.

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What matters in tie-breaking rules? How competition guides design , by Itai Ashlagi  and Afshin Nikzad August 2015 Abstract Sch...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Migrants aren't widgets: refugee resettlement is a matching problem

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Here's an op-ed published in Politico Europe today over my byline: OPINION Migrants aren’t widgets An American Nobel economi...

Do payments systems like bitcoin change which transactions are treated as repugnant?

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Rod Garratt of the NY Fed and UC Santa Barbara explores the idea that distributed payment systems like Bitcoin might change the manner in w...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Axel Ockenfels is celebrated in the German press as an inderdisciplinary market designer

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The Sueddeutsche Zeitung celebrates Axel Ockenfels as one of 24 German economists who matter. Die Mauer muss weg --Axel Ockenfels hat die...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Deceased organ donation in India

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The Times of India has the story:   Many pledge, but long way to harvest "Almost one lakh people have signed up for organ donation d...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Scott Kominer's market design course at Harvard

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Market design is available again at Harvard, taught this year by Scott Kominers . You can find his syllabus/reading list  here . And be...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

A new journal for market design

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Peter Biro brings to my attention the announcement of a new journal that seems to be focused at least partly on market design.  The journa...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Economics is useful, diverse and fun: new video from the American Economics Association

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Do you advise students on careers? The AEA has produced a video for prospective economists. The video is here and here . Below is the desc...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Law and market design at Duke

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It looks like Kim Krawiec et al. are up to something interesting at Duke. Duke Law Project on Law and Markets focuses on strengths and li...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Assisted dying: the debate in England

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The Telegraph has the latest: ‘There is nothing sacred about suffering’, insist faith leaders in assisted dying call--Bishops, priests and...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Some histories of organ transplantation

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I can't vouch for any of these...most are un-refereed internet pages...some starting with events reported from quite long ago, regardin...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Do participants try to strategize in strategy-proof mechanisms? Alex Rees-Jones surveys medical students about the NRMP.

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One of the papers I heard at the recent SITE conference at Stanford was this one, reporting a survey of medical students engaged in the NRM...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

Many dialysis patients are not referred to transplant centers in their first years on dialysis (incentives matter...)

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Too Few Kidney Dialysis Patients Referred for Organ Transplant, Study Finds Only about one in four in Georgia get further evaluation &q...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Is unified enrollment school choice coming to Indianapolis?

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"Caitlin Hannon gave up her job and her Indianapolis Public School Board seat for an idea that, while a pretty good bet to give her a ...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Storytellers prefer heroes, although research and development is done by teams...

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I've spent some time helping my publisher(s) sell my book Who Gets What and Why since it came out in early June, so I have a renewed ap...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Some pictures from the Econometric Society World Congress in Montreal

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There were many market design talks in Montreal this week: see if you can identify these well known market designers..
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Organ donation in Qatar

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Here's a story from Al Jazeera: Finding organ donors among Qatar's Muslim community The Qatari government offers a series of ince...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

A privacy-preserving market design intervention to avoid Tay Sachs disease

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Scott Kominers draws my attention to a 1987 news note in JAMA, with a privacy-sensitive market design for keeping people's sensitive g...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

The Hal and Al Show: Hal Varian interviews me about "Who Gets What — and Why," at Google (video)

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I got to chat with Hal Varian at Google last week (Aug 10), about my book, Who Gets What and Why, and how computer science and economics co...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

A look back at school choice in New Orleans

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Here's an article discussing  IIPSC 's work in New Orleans, in the Fall issue of Education Next: The New Orleans OneAppCentralize...