Thursday, June 2, 2011

Followup on school choice in San Francisco

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My previous post on how school choice is faring in San Francisco was called   School choice in San Francisco: a promise of transparency .  ...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Congestion in online shopping

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Too many choices? Subscribe to a shopping service. The NY Times reports: Sites That Send Shoppers What They Might Like " JewelMint ...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Reverse scholarships reversed at KAIST

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A recent article concerning several suicides at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology pointed out that a high powered incen...
Monday, May 30, 2011

An Experimental Study of Sponsored-Search Auctions

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That's the title of a new paper by Yeon-Koo Che, Syngjoo Choi, and Jinwoo Kim. Abstract: We study the Generalized Second Price auctio...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Misc. kidney exchange

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A nondirected donor chain that accomplished 3 transplants at Emory, where kidney exchange has been going on since 2009: story and video Ki...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Limits on the scope of markets

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Tim Sullivan points me to this old post by Abe Othman on his blog Constructive Economics:  Horseflesh and Hypocrisy "T. Boone Picken...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Seeing red at Harvard

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A sea of red at Harvard's commencement yesterday... The Ph.D. grads got out of their gowns pretty fast as they came to lunch... way t...

The market for taxis

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With a Start-Up Company, a Ride Is Just a Tap of an App Away " Uber , a start-up based in San Francisco, offers a cellphone applicatio...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

College admissions and income diversity

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In this season of college graduations, David Leonhardt reports on the income distribution of students at selective colleges: Top Colleges, L...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Frank Delmonico on transplant tourism in China

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In a News and Views article in Nature Reviews Nephrology, Frank Delmonico describes commercial transplantation in China as still depending o...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Misc. repugnant transactions

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Minn. Voters Will Decide on Gay Marriage Ban "After nearly six hours of emotional debate, a proposed constitutional amendment that wou...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Black Market for Blood

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According to this AP article , Bulgaria is experiencing first-hand the concept of repugnant transactions: "It's a grim reality for ...

Horsemeat in Canada

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Top Chef trots into taboo territory "Producers of the competitive culinary TV show Top Chef Canada galloped headlong into an intern...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Kidney exchange: the view from Michigan

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Here's a new working paper on kidney exchange, that gives thoughtful attention to the kinds of weights that might be attached to edges: ...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Market design (and experimental economics) in Australia: job opportunity in Victoria

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It must be a good sign when governments are advertising for market designers with experimental skills... Senior Policy Analyst Experimenta...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Harvard legacy and waitlist admissions

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The Crimson reports: Legacy Admit Rate at 30 Percent " Harvard’s acceptance rate for legacies has hovered around 30 percent—more than...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Kristof on randomized trials, and economics

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Nicholas Kristof's NY Times column today, Getting Smart on Aid , is a paean to randomized trials experiments, and the work of Michael Kr...

Mentoring doctoral students

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I'm proud to have gotten an award from my students:) It does make me remember that I have some (linguistic) reservations about mentor...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Markets for human hair

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I recently received this email: Hi Al, I noticed that you article posted some time ago ( Markets for hair, blood, plasma and eggs ) con...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Gender and annuities: insurance as a repugnant transaction in EU

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Considerations of public policy sometimes contribute to making certain kinds of transaction repugnant. Ran Shorrer points me to this recent...
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