Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Blog on school choice by Atila Abdulkadiroglu

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Atila Abdulkadiroglu at Duke has a new blog called School Choice : News and developments from schools and economics that matter to parents a...

Harvard's mysterious Z-list

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One of the more unusual routes to admission at Harvard is the Z-list, which the Crimson writes about this week. Z-Listed Students Experience...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Kidney exchange at NEPKE

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The Sunday Globe has a good story about a recent three way kidney exchange at the New England Program for Kidney Exchange. One of the donors...
Monday, March 29, 2010

The market for matzot

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The Passover holiday is a time to think about matzah, whose plural is matzot. A little market history: Thoroughly Modern Matzah "In 188...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

School choice in North Carolina

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"A bitter fight over school choice in North Carolina grabbed national headlines in recent months," says a news release from Duke U...

Usury and anti-semitism

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From Ira Stoll's review of Capitalism and the Jews , by Jerry Z. Muller, Princeton University Press: "The book by Mr. Muller, a pro...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

China's theme park of dwarves

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A Miniature World Magnifies Dwarf Life Quotes reflecting opposing views of repugnance: “I think it is horrible,” said Gary Arnold, the spoke...
Friday, March 26, 2010

School choice is serious business: litigation and politics in NYC and Chicago

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In NYC, high school admissions have been delayed by a lawsuit motivated by the city's effort to close some schools: High school letters ...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Time to scramble, if still on the economics job market

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If you are still on the market for new economics Ph.D.s, now is the time to register for the 2010 Job Market Scramble Registration is open ...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Random matchings

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Random matchings are the subject of two new papers. The first (not in chronological order:) IMPLEMENTING RANDOM ASSIGNMENTS: A GENERALIZATIO...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Misc. kidney exchange links

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The growth of kidney exchange is reflected in the following miscellany of stories. Trading for the Perfect Match: MassGeneral Hospital for C...

Transplant ethics

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Two stories reflect different aspects of current debates about transplantation, and who are appropriate recipients, and donors. Transplant t...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Reserve prices in ad auctions: a field experiment by Ostrovsky and Schwarz

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Reserve Prices in Internet Advertising Auctions: A Field Experiment by Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz. Abstract "We present the...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Congressional briefing, postscript

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On March 15, 2010 I gave a 15 minute presentation as part of a Congressional Briefing on the usefulness of Economics (particularly economic...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Signaling and hiring: one law recruiter's opinion

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From the Faculty Lounge: Tim Zinnecker writes "Speaking solely for myself (and not fellow committee members or my law school institutio...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Market design posters

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I'm giving a public talk on market design in Toronto on March 22, and Martin Osborne writes: "Hi Al. We're making preparations ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Match Day!

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This year's schedule for announcing the results of the resident match ends today, when most graduating medical students will learn where...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Who would sell kidneys, if kidney sales were legal?

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Not just the poor, according to a new (and sure to be controversial) study conducted by interviewing people at regional rail and urban troll...

Wiseguy Tickets

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If I were planning to break the laws on ticket resales, I think I would refrain from calling my company Wiseguy Tickts: 4 Charged in Concert...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

B2B finance

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Page 14 of a recent report by Morgan Stanley focuses on The Receivables Exchange , about which I have posted previously. (The Morgan Stanley...