Saturday, December 3, 2011

Lectures on market design by Clayton Featherstone, Eduardo Azevedo, and Jacob Leshno

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Good market designers aren't necessarily good teachers, but three recent lectures in our market design class (two of them yesterday) rev...
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Seattle backs away from transparent (strategy-proof) school choice

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It appears that, after a decade of using a school choice system based at least in part on a deferred acceptance algorithm, in the course of ...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Paying bone marrow donors is now legal (depending on how it's done)

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Joshua Gans forwards me this, just in on the AP wire from the Washington Post: Court says some bone marrow donors can be paid, overturning ...

What does the NSF do? What should it do? Reports from and about the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, and Dec 1 Webinar

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What should the National Science Foundation division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences be doing? They asked and we answered , and...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

School Choice and Education Reform at Brookings

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The Brookings Institute hosts a session on  School Choice and Education Reform , featuring Joel Klein, who was chancellor of New York City s...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Early admissions and early decision

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A number of stories follow this year's trends in early admissions (with Harvard back in the early game). Early applications on rise at...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Quick links to economics job market candidates, from the NBER

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If you are hiring new Ph.D. economists this year, it's time to begin inviting them to interviews at the ASSA meetings in January. If you...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Matching in Practice conference: 28 November, Budapest

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Peter Biro writes: Hi Al, the European research network on Matching in Practice will have its third workshop on 28 November, this time in...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Gift registries for everything

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Are people starting to think what gifts to buy you? US Airways sends me the following email: Don’t just wish for the miles you want…Ask ...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Liver transplants for alcoholics?

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Here's hoping you didn't drink too much yesterday:  Study stirs debate over transplants for alcoholics "Some gravely ill alco...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Raising turkeys for Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving y'all:) Here's timely advice from North Carolina Cooperative Extension if you're thinking of starting a sma...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

College admissions and searchable data

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A slightly breathless but interesting story in The Washington Monthly about college admissions, and how it may be transformed by data mining...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Surrogacy as a business

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Excerpts from The Red Market: Cash on Delivery "India legalized surrogacy in 2002 as part of a larger effort to promote medical touri...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

Matching and market design session at SAET in Australia in July

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Fuhito Kojima writes: Call for submissions: I am organizing a session on matching and market design in SAET 2012:  http://www.saet.illinoi...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Schools' choices and school choice in England

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In the U.S., charter schools are typically not allowed to be choosy: they often have to offer admission strictly by lottery. In England, the...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

School choice in New Orleans

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New Orleans has some ambitious plans for a unified school choice plan in a city whose schools will include many independent charter schools....
Friday, November 18, 2011

School Choice in Chicago

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CPS Application Plan Moves Ahead " The Chicago Board of Education approved a resolution Wednesday that would require all incoming 9th...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

School Choice in Denver

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Denver is implementing a new school choice system. IIPSC , the Institute for Innovation in Public School Choice, is helping. Denver Public S...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Congratulations to Muriel Niederle

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If that's white smoke coming out of the faculty meeting at the College of Cardinal , it must mean that Muriel Niederle has just been pr...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Boston school choice: waiting lists

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The Boston Globe looks at waiting lists for Boston Public Schools. Some wait lists don't move until after the first week of classes, whe...