Thursday, January 5, 2012

Philosophy job market

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Inside Higher Ed reports that a social reception called "the smoker" at the Philosophy job market meetings plays a semi-official r...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Scientific misconduct: fraud, plagiarism and all that

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A good article on scientific fraud and plagiarism by Charles Gross in The Nation (of all places), focusing on the case of Marc Hauser, but l...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Salaries and perks in academic hiring

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In Texas, a law school dean has recently resigned amidst issues of pay equity: Univ. of Texas law school dean resigns after pay battle . E...
Monday, January 2, 2012

Frontiers of Market Design conference in Switzerland in May

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Frontiers of Market Design: Matching Markets Conference  (note the Jan 10 submission deadline...) May, 20-23, 2012 (Sunday 3 p.m. - We...
Sunday, January 1, 2012

Conference pictures from Jerusalem: Bob Aumann, Hilary Putnam, Eyal Winter, Avishai Margalit, Abraham Neyman, Sergiu Hart, Danny Kahneman, Ehud Kalai, Ed Lazear, and Manny Yaari

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Pictures from the  conference in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Rationality Center in Jerusalem. (Click to enlarge...) Bob Auman...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Marriage markets in transition

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There was a time when the generalization that husbands tended to be older, taller, more educated and higher earning than their wives covered...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Matchmaking on a plane

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On those long overseas flights, picking a seatmate is a bit like picking a roommate, and KLM is on the case:  Mile-high matchmaking: airline...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Three-way kidney exchange makes it to more hospitals

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Innovations diffuse, and the ability to do three-way kidney exchanges is showing up at more hospitals, as this story from North Carolina sho...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Couples on the job market

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Some blogospheric debate about hiring couples (centered on law schools, but generally applicable) is flagged by Dan Filler at the Faculty Lo...

Progress in the national kidney exchange pilot program

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There is recent modest but welcome progress in the effort to organize a Federally sponsored kidney exchange on the national level in the Uni...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

Rationality in Jerusalem

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The Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University is 20...December 28-31 CONFERENCE The 20th Anniversary of the Center for the Study of ...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

Choices confronting live kidney donors

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The choices confronting a live kidney donor aren't simple. Here's the story of a priest who wanted to be a non-directed donor to sta...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

What would the national kidney foundation like you to donate?

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Advertisement seen at St. Louis airport
Friday, December 23, 2011

Foreign universities in Qatar

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A story * about University College London setting up an outpost in Qatar makes clear some of the difficulties , and how they are addressing ...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Early admissions statistics

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This year's early admissions offers have been made (under both early action and binding early decision programs ), and here are a few ac...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Two Dutch TV presenters have each other for dinner

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Joshua Gans more or less dares me to blog about the following repugnant transaction: Dutch TV presenters cause cannibalism storm after eatin...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Debate over school choice

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Yesterday's post discussed how it is difficult to create effective schools in poor neighborhoods: first class physical facilities aren...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Swimming pools and school performance in Boston

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Schools' physical facilities aren't so highly correlated with their reading scores...To put it another way, building a modern new bu...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Nonsimultaneous kidney exchange chains simplify the logistics

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There are lots of good reasons why nonsimultaneous extended altruistic donor (NEAD) chains are a good idea, and they have become common sinc...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Could the Church of England declare finance to be repugnant?

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It looks like they might try: Church leaders accuse bankers of losing their 'moral moorings' "..."It is hard to imagine ...