Monday, November 7, 2011

What do policy makers want from a market design? And what would be the consequences of giving it to them? Clayton Featherstone on rank efficiency.

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A surprising variety of allocation mechanisms, such as those used for school choice, ask participants to rank-order the alternatives; i.e. t...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Five Harvard candidates for the Economics job market this year (2011-12)

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One of the pleasures of being a professor of economics is the opportunity to interact closely with young economists just as they metamorphos...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

ESA conference in Tucson, November 10-12

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Here's the program for the  2011 Regional ESA Conference , November 10-12, 2011. One striking thing about the program is that there ar...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Colbert on proposal to repeal Florida's dwarf tossing ban

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Colbert Supports Repeal Of Dwarf-Tossing Ban Proposed By Florida Legislator Ritch Workman (Dwarf tossing was one of the repugnant trans...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

College admissions trends, 2011 edition

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NACAC, the National Association for College Admissions Counseling has released a new report: College Admission Trends for 2011: Uncertain T...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Academic publication: design of the market for (scholarly) ideas

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Some new additions to the venerable discussion of how to organize academic journals and other outlets for (peer reviewed) ideas. Noam Nis...

Science exchange

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One of the notable things about this description is the ambivalence about monetary payments... Online Marketplace Helps Professors Outsour...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Movie on Iranian kidney transplant market--bureaucracy, price negotiations, and surgery

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Buying and selling kidneys in Iran seems to involve a good deal of bureaucracy and lots of negotiations, followed, in this movie, by two liv...
Monday, October 31, 2011

A marketplace for Harvard babysitters

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If you work at Harvard, you might be able to hire a Harvard student as a babysitter. Here's the announcement: Dear Colleague, I am w...

Kidney exchange--gaps in financing

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Here's a disturbing editorial from the Globe and Mail, published Oct. 26, 2011. It represents one of the (many) gaps in financing that r...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

The roommate problem on TV

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James Boudreau writes to alert us to some matching theory on television: "The NBC show ``Community'' chronicles the misadven...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Buy and Sell First Dates (now we're just bargaining over the price)

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That's the idea behind What's Your Price.com , a two sided dating platform in which Generous People (appears to be mostly guys) can ...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Brooklyn man pleads guilty to trafficking black market kidneys

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Yesterday, in Trenton NJ, Brooklyn man pleads guilty to trafficking black market kidneys to N.J. residents "The price was steep. As m...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

NBER market design conference, October 28-29, 2011

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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH,  Market Design Working Group Meeting , Susan Athey and Parag Pathak Organizers, October 28-29, 20...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Harvard celebrates first kidney transplant

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In connection with Harvard's 375th anniversary, the Gazette is taking note of some key events:   A transplant makes history--Joseph Murr...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Where do you fall on the US income distribution? CBO report

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The Congressional Budget Office issued a report today,   Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007 .  Growth for ...

Horse meat in the U.S.

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The NY Times reports on how the market has responded to the closing of U.S. slaughterhouses for horses (related to the repugnance felt by so...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Tayfun Sonmez on matching officers to military branches

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On Friday Tayfun Sonmez gave a stimulating presentation of his analysis of West Point's system for assigning graduating officers to mil...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Dating as a two sided platform

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From a new Wall Street dating website: " Ladies pay $15/month membership fee and are allowed to browse and contact as many men as they...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

An Incentive System with Heart: Wharton celebrates Judd Kessler

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That's the subheading of an article in which Wharton celebrates the work of Judd Kessler: How to Encourage People to Become Organ Donor...