Sunday, December 5, 2010

"Una persona altruista puede salvar muchas vidas"

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"A selfless person can save many lives". That's Mike Rees, the founder and guiding light of the Alliance for Paired Donation...

Cory Doctorow on copyright

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Cory Doctorow in The Guardian: What do we want copyright to do? " when we talk about copyright, we're not just talking about who...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

College football teams are hard to rank

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At least that's the conclusion of a recent NY Times article, Who’s No. 1? , written before the Thanksgiving weekend games were played.  ...
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Friday, December 3, 2010

School choice in NY and Chicago

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In NYC, the high school choice process seems to be working smoothly: High School Applications are due back to counselors Friday, December 3,...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Transplant budget cuts in Arizona

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Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients "Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are near...

Pentagon report calls for repeal of "don't ask, don't tell"

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Pentagon calls for repeal of ‘don’t ask’ "Ending a ban on gays serving openly in the armed services would not harm long-term military ...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Harvard reviewing its decision to abolish early admissions

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The Crimson reports: Harvard Examining Early Admissions--College reviews decision to eliminate early admissions "The College is reeva...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

More on economists at hi tech firms

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John Horton (who is interested in online labor markets ) writes in response to my post about economists at Amazon to let me know about this...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Wolverines beat Buckeyes in organ donation this year

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For you Michigan fans who were disappointed this weekend on the football field, here's some heartening news: U-M beats Ohio State in ann...

Market design at Amazon

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The following job market ad at Econ-jobs.com   for a new economist at Amazon caught my eye, both for what it suggests about the kind of int...
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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Microfinancial crisis

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The NY Times reports India Microcredit Faces Collapse From Defaults "India’s rapidly growing private microcredit industry faces immin...
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

The market for guns in the U.S.

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That's the subject of this Treasury Dept. report, published in 2000: Commerce in Firearms in the United States "Each year, about ...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Irish horses going the way of Celtic tigers

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Facing Starvation: The Sad Plight of Ireland's Abandoned Horses "During Ireland's boom years, thousands of people bought hors...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Misc. kidney chains and exchanges

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The UNOS National Kidney Paired Donation Pilot System is cautiously expanding its scope to include non-directed donor chains "St. Lou...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

The (duopolistic, Federally funded) market for dialysis

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Robin Fields in The Atlantic discusses dialysis: “God Help You. You're on Dialysis.” It begins: " I n October 1972, after a mon...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Signaling (by candidates) and advertising (by employers) on the Economics job market

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John Cawley has been carefully reading the ads in Job Openings for Economists , and he notices that advertisers have been taking explicit no...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Entrepreneurial market design in old New York

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My colleague Ed Glaeser has penned an economist's love letter to New York City that focuses on its entrepreneurial history: Start-Up Cit...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Strategy-proofness and strategy sets: residency fraud in school choice

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When we speak of strategy-proofness in the context of school choice, we are most often speaking about whether it is safe for parents to reve...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Research misconduct in the marketplace for science

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Lately there have been a number of news stories about research misconduct of the "conventional" sort, involving scientists falsify...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Selling blood plasma as a part time job

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In the Chronicle, Lawrence Biemiller writes,  At Central Michigan U., It’s a Matter of Money “For a lot of college students, it’s just a l...