Saturday, November 23, 2024

Competition between drug testing and drug taking in bicycle racing

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 Some time ago the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) issued a report on performance enhancing drugs in bicycle racing, which make...
Friday, November 22, 2024

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap? Podcast from BYU radio.

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 Here's a podcast on the shortage of organs for transplant, and on the controversies about compensating organ donors, and plasma donors....
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 ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

School choice, school quality, and student performance

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  School choice, which allows children to move away from neighborhood schools, doesn't by itself improve school quality, although it may...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

AI assisted job applications (and application screening)

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  NBC news has the story: AI is supposed to make applying to jobs easier — but it might be creating another problem Companies have touted ne...
Monday, November 18, 2024

What preferences are revealed by market designs? by Oğuzhan Çelebi (who is on the job market)

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Oğuzhan Çelebi is on the job market this year (listed on the job market websites of both MIT and Stanford where he's finishing a two y...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Opt-out defaults do not increase organ donation rates, in Public Health

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 No one said market design was going to be easy...(well, some people did, but it turns out it isn't.) Dallacker, M., L. Appelius, A. M. ...