Thursday, September 30, 2010

Early decision in selective colleges

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Steve Cohen at Forbes tabulates some admissions figures in his blog post: Early Decision: College Admission’s Secret Handshake College Per...

Update on that Medicare Auction

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Peter Cramton writes to update us on the progress of the letter he organized about A poorly designed Medicare auction . "I want to t...

Junior tennis players: turn pro or go to college?

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Agents Bet on Future at the Juniors Tournament "“Juniors are the lifeblood of the business,” said Norman Canter, an agent and owner o...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Kindergarten applications in Manhattan

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A Frenzied First Day for Applying to Private Kindergartens "As the new school year begins, another annual rite of Manhattan education ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Proposal for porn education in Switzerland

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Bettina Klaus writes about a form of sex education that might not catch on everywhere (or even anywhere): "The "Jeunes Socialist...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Thoughts on kidney exchange in a steady state

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As kidney exchange grows, a growing number of people are thinking about how it might be organized. We can welcome to the club  Larry Ausube...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Bernanke on economic engineering

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Speech by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, At the Conference Co-sponsored by the Center for Economic Policy Studies and the Bendheim Center for Fin...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Organ markets, transplant tourism, and compensation of donors in Asia

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The Australian ABC News carries a story about transplant tourism that seems to focus on China (but which I hope is a little dated ): Austral...
Friday, September 24, 2010

College admissions through the common ap, and supplements as signals

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The Common Application makes it easy to apply to one more college. So colleges that use it get an increase in applications, some of which m...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

San Francisco school choice goes in-house

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Those of you who have been following school choice developments here know that, for the past year,  Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Clayton Featherst...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

What have we learned from market design? Update to Roth 2008

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Not quite a new paper, but I was asked to provide a postscript for Roth (2008). What have we learned from market design? Update to Roth (2...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Computational aspects of matching

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The Third International Workshop on Computational Social Choice Düsseldorf, Germany, September 13–16, 2010, looks to have been a very intere...
Monday, September 20, 2010

A poorly designed Medicare auction

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Peter Cramton writes: Dear Al, Below is my email to colleagues in market design. The "brief note" below tells the story. If any ...
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Kidney exchange at the Center for Research on Computation and Society

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I'll be speaking today at Harvard's CRCS lunchtime talk: Monday, September 20, 2010: Alvin Roth, Harvard Business School on Kidney ...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

Kidney exchange at NEPKE and the APD

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At XXIII International Conference of The Transplantation Society in Vancouver this past August, colleagues of mine presented the following t...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

The market for books (right after the invention of printing)

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Printed books didn't replace hand lettered books and scrolls overnight. The Boston Globe interviews Andrew Pettegree, a professor of ...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Cleaning up the scramble for medical residents with SOAP

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Changes are coming in the scramble that follows the medical resident match run by the National Resident Matching Program ( NRMP ). A new, se...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Could academic tenure become a repugnant transaction?

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In an essay in the NY Times Book Review, Christopher Shea reflects on some recent books that suggest it might: The End of Tenure? "In...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Judd Kessler on the roommate problem in 2002

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In response to my recent posts on roommate matching for college students, Judd Kessler points me to a newspaper column he wrote in 2002, on...

Scott Duke Kominers at Yahoo!

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You can see a very short video of Scott , drunk on market design juice, being interviewed at The View from Yahoo! Labs’ Key Scientific Chall...