Tuesday, January 31, 2012

School choice in Denver: communication, communication, and communication

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Shannon Fitzgerald, director of choice and enrollment services for Denver Public Schools, explains what parents need to know about a strateg...

Congestion is deadly in South Africa university admissions

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We're accustomed to seeing market failures due to congestion, but seldom so clearly as in the last round of admissions at the University...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Parking

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I always knew that parking is a sexy topic*, but it takes a first rate journalist like Leon Neyfakh at the Boston Globe to explain clearly t...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Repugnance creates arbitrage opportunities

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I was recently party to an email conversation with Judd Kessler and Luke Coffman , about the   NY Times articles about working conditions a...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

We pay for dialysis but not for transplants...

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The NY Times headlines one more inconsistency in health policy:  For Illegal Immigrant, Line Is Drawn at Transplant "He was also an i...
Friday, January 27, 2012

German university admissions

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I'll be teaching the first class of the semester of Experimental Economics today, so readers of this blog may see more of the intersecti...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Experiments and market design in Switzerland in April

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Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting (theem) Institutions and Behavior April 19-21, 2012 in Kreuzlingen (CH) Organized by the Thur...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Is economic repugnance closely related to biological disgust?

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Colleagues often send me articles related to this blog, but the one I have received the most copies of recently is yesterday's NY Times ...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Is the market for professors of English becoming less thick?

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That's the question raised by a recent article on the job market organized by the Modern Language Association: Realities of the Endless ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Justice department appeals recent court ruling allowing bone marrow donors to be compensated

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I recently posted about the 9th circuit court of appeals' decision to allow some bone marrow donors to be compensated: Paying bone marr...

The true meaning of "fashion forward." Coordinating dates in NY, London, Paris, and Milan

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The fashion forward among you will probably be as relieved as I am to know that New York Fashion Week Finally Has An Official Start Date: Se...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Games 2012, World Congress of the Game Theory Society, July 22-26.

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  The fourth World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Games 2012 , will be held  Sunday July 22 - Thursday July 26, 2012  at Istanbul Bilg...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Internet dating not working for you? Hire a wingman or wingwoman

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I'm sure there's a Shakespeare comedy about this latest twist on the dating game... On a Wingman and a Prayer: Singles Bow to Cupi...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Pre-K blues

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If attendance at a public school is in principle a right, complicated by shortages of good places, attendance at pre-kindergarten is just co...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Why can't college athletes be paid?

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The NY Times Sunday Magazine on how anomalous it is that we regard paying college athletes as repugnant: Let's Start Paying College Athl...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Boston school choice politics

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The Globe reports that Boston Mayor Menino has weighed in on the long running debate on the size of the zones in which school choice should ...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Market design courses here and there

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Here are some courses I know about this semester (or one of the upcoming quarters), please feel free to add more in the comments or by email...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Paywalls create conflict of interest between newspapers and journalists

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Journalists, like academics, want their writing to be read. Newspapers, like academic publishers, like to be paid for what they sell. Journa...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

The culture of science, and its absence. The dog that hasn't barked in many years in the Arab world

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In connection with my series of posts on the market for  universities , and how easy or hard they may be to transplant, the following long a...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Sorcery as a repugnant transaction--and a capital crime

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The Saudi's seriously don't like sorcery: Saudi Woman Beheaded for 'Witchcraft' "A Saudi woman was beheaded after be...