Sunday, March 6, 2011

Marketplace for retired economists

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The AEA is attempting to make another part of the job market thick: it is linked from the main JOE page at   http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/ He...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

The state of economic theory

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Jeff Ely at Cheap Talk reviews the state of economic theory and lists four positive signs (among them a plug for market design): Theorists...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Matching conference at Northwestern

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A recent conference at Northwestern looked at matching and market design:  Matching: findings, flaws and future   February 18th 1.30-2.30...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

Microeconomics and Market Design at Yahoo!

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Microeconomics and Market Design    By   Michael Schwarz   and   David Reiley What are the effects of complexity in mechanism design?  P...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

NPR On Point discusses kidney allocation proposals

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The On Point show at National Public Radio has a broadcast on the pros and cons of the recent proposal to change the allocation of deceased ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The special (Medicare) status of kidney disease

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Special Treatment — The Story of Medicare’s ESRD Entitlement NEJM, February 16, 2011, by Richard A. Rettig, Ph.D. " I n October 1972...
Monday, February 28, 2011

New proposals for allocating deceased-donor kidneys

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UNOS has put out a proposal for public comment: Concepts for Revising Kidney Allocation  Here is a pretty good Washington Post story about...
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

A U.S. group dating site catches on in India

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Jilted in the U.S., a Site Finds Love in India "IN 2008, three young guys in Manhattan started Ignighter.com , a dating Web site focu...
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Saturday, February 26, 2011

"Likely letters" of admission and student athletes at Harvard

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The Harvard Crimson describes one of the tools that Ivy League athletic coaches use to recruit student athletes. (The Ivy League faces some ...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

Early admission returns to Harvard and Princeton

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The Crimson reports that Harvard cares about equilibrium:   Harvard Announces Return of Early Action Admissions Program "Harvard Coll...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Justice Department will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act

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Same sex marriages in states where they are legal, like Massachusetts, will no longer automatically be opposed by the federal government as...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Tourism-crime equilibrium in Paradise

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"It is best to not leave anything of value in your rental car when parking in remote locations or at marked public beach accesses.  Lea...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

NYC school choice--cost overruns

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David Chen in the NY Times has an article on cost overruns for the new school choice system which includes the high school choice system th...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Matching college students to internships

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That's the goal of a web based portal called Intern Match . Here's an announcement about them from TechCrunch: InternMatch Raises ...
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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Calls for unraveling of Ph.D. education may be premature

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At least that is the conclusion of an article by Joshua Tucker of NYU's department of Politics that appeared at Inside Higher Ed, Acade...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

xkcd comic on kidney transplantation

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http://xkcd.com/749/
Friday, February 18, 2011

Relative manipulability of school choice systems

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That's the topic of a new NBER working paper by Parag Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez : SCHOOL ADMISSIONS REFORM IN CHICAGO AND ENGLAND: COM...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Lawsuit against ban on compensating bone marrow donors moves forward

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Compensating Bone Marrow Donors Could Save Lives But the Government Bans It " Arlington, Va. —Every year, nearly 3,000 Americans di...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Medieval Matching Markets

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That's the title of a working paper by  Lars Börner and  Daniel Quint , studying brokerage rules developed by central and western Euro...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Two faces of kidney transplantation

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Two men who have played significant roles in kidney transplantation are both named Sonmez. One is the great Boston College economist Tayfu...