Showing posts with label incentives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label incentives. Show all posts
Friday, April 12, 2024

Gambling on sports, by and on athletes

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  Now that sports betting is legal, and apps allow people to bet on particular events within a game as it unfolds, there is concern that pla...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Impact of prioritization on kidney and liver allocation in Israel

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      Israel's  Organ Transplantation Law grants some priority on waiting lists for transplants to candidates who are first-degree relat...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Incentives to take tests and get vaccinated

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  As the pandemic phase of Covid-19 recedes, we can reflect on what we've learned about demand for tests and for vaccines.   Here's ...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Reporting and misreporting from Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs)

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 Because there are shortages of organs for transplant, it is important to measure how successful Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) are ...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Incentives and mis-incentives in science (Freakonomics part II)

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  Freakonomics has a second post on fraud in science, and you can listen or read the transcript here: Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? Two quo...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

It's a dominant strategy for deferred acceptance proposers to state true preferences in the marriage problem: simple proof

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This post is not entirely self-contained, it is in some sense a continuation of and addition to my talk last year at the Simons Institute, w...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Market Design for Surface Water , by Ferguson and Milgrom

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 The potential market for surface water is a market in which any transfer of rights involves externalities affecting the water consumption o...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Organ transplantation in China: in transition--and controversy about paying funeral costs

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  I recently spoke at the CAST transplant conference in Hong Kong (see picture ), and the underlying theme of my talk, and of many talks the...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Navigating NYC school choice: advice for families

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  Each year a new cohort of families has to navigate school choice in New York City.  The city offers lots of resources for gathering inform...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Incentives in matching markets: Counting and comparing manipulating agents by Bonkoungou and Nesterov

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 Here's a paper that caught my eye in the current issue of Theoretical Economics, Volume 18, Issue 3 (July 2023) Incentives in matching...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Statement of Policy Principles and Solutions: Living Organ Donation, from the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), and the American Society of Transplantation (AST)

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  Here's a joint statement about living-donor kidney transplantation from the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the Americ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

"Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences," in Nature

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  Here's a recent article in Nature whose title effectively summarizes its conclusions, and brings some evidence from RCTs to bear on th...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Deceased donor organ discards on weekends, in the the Annals of Transplantation

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 Hospital resources and physician incentives can be stressed on weekends, and there is historical evidence that organ discards are higher on...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Informationally Simple Incentives by Simon Gleyze and Agathe Pernoud

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  Agathe Pernoud  is on the Economics job market from Stanford this year, and is interested in the properties of information in environments...
Monday, October 3, 2022

Choosing (as if) from a menu (by Gonczarowski, Heffetz and Thomas; and by Bó, and Hakimov)

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What makes serial dictatorship so obviously strategy proof is that it gives each participant the opportunity to choose from a menu, and get ...
Monday, May 9, 2022

School choice with outside options , by Akbarpour, Kapor, Neilson, van Dijk, and Zimmerman in J.Pub.E.

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 One of the differences between market design and the theoretical mechanism design literature is that in mechanism design, the theorist crea...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field By Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth

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 Mechanisms designed to elicit truthful reporting in the laboratory sometimes are cumbersome to administer and difficult to explain.  Here&#...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Crime and punishment (or not): Shoplifting in San Francisco

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  In a criminal justice system in which incarceration sometimes seems to be the treatment of choice, it makes some sense to pay less attenti...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Are incentives for vaccination coercive, exploitative, or otherwise unethical? Persad and Emanuel think not, in JAMA

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  Many jurisdictions and venues are now offering incentives for people to be vaccinated against Covid-19.  It will not surprise the readers ...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Experiments touching on market design in the July AER

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 The July AER has a number of experiments that speak to market design:  Online, How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Book...