Thursday, December 31, 2009

The year in market design

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Kidney exchange : In fits and starts, kidney exchange is picking up. The biggest development this year has followed from Mike Rees' pion...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Airport security and privacy

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Recent discussions of airport security in the post underpants-bomber era make it clear that privacy is a complex issue. For example, if an a...

Dan McFadden salutes Hurwicz and Laffont

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Daniel McFadden, The human side of mechanism design: a tribute to Leo Hurwicz and Jean-Jacque Laffont , Rev. Econ. Design (2009) 13:77–100 (...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Scalping free ice skating at Fenway

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The mayor is shocked, the Globe reports Scalpers cloud free skating at Fenway: City protests as rink tickets are hawked at high prices ...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Hiring in a recession: sorting through 500 applications for an entry level job

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The NY Times has a story with some illuminating comments about how a trucking company handled the problem of sorting through 500 application...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

What is the capacity of a school?

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A recent NY Times article describes the unusual way in which charter schools are welcomed by the city, and share space in public school buil...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

NSF survey of earned doctorates

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The NSF reports on doctoral degrees granted by American universities: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics....
Friday, December 25, 2009

Give cash next year?

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Tim Harford, writing about Joel Waldfogel's famous work on the "deadweight loss" of Christmas gifts, writes "What to do? ...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Mexico City Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

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Here's the story: Mexico City Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage "Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Doing a good deed for a price; Sally Satel's mailbox on kidney sales

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" “For the right price, yes, I would give up one of my organs to save someone’s life,” read the e-mail message, one of three dozen I re...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Israel revamps its priority system for deceased donor organs

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In an effort to increase the number of deceased organ donors, Israel has revamped its allocation system to give priority to those who have t...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Law and economics of repugnant markets

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Kimberly Krawiec at The Faculty Lounge, some time ago followed up on one of my posts with an interesting one of her own: Selecting for Sex...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Your computer as a marketplace for internet browsers

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Microsoft Makes New Concessions to Settle Browser Case "Microsoft has agreed to reconfigure its Windows operating system in Europe to a...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Indian marriage market for people in the same profession

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Amol Agrawal blogs about an Indian Matrimony website for people in development sector . It's here: devnetmatrimony.org . The site is in ...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Cousin marriage

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The NY Times writes about marriage between first cousins, which is illegal in exactly half of the 50 States of the U.S.: Shaking Off the Sha...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Child marriage

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Child brides' enduring plight: Problem illustrates hold of tribal doctrines "Yemen has no minimum age for marriage, and girls as yo...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

More non-simultaneous kidney chains

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A non-simultaneous chain with some interesting features is reported in Washington DC, followed by 3 non-simultaneous chains, starting with 3...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Kidney transplantation in China

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In China Daily: Kidneys illegally sold online "Two major online forums www.02066.com.cn and www.as.2sun.cn, are operating for organ bro...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

The most selective colleges are getting more selective

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That is the conclusion Caroline Hoxby reaches in " The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges " Here's the abstract (the pa...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Matching and "undermatching" in college admissions

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A recent commentary in the Chronicle of Higher Education summarizes a new book on how (in)frequently students finish college in the canonica...