Wednesday, February 29, 2012

From repugnant, to legal, to mandatory?

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The Telegraph reports on the intersection of prostitution law (it's now legal) and unemployment law (you can lose your benefits if you t...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Just as well he's not the French president...

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A recent story about the once likely presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn sheds some light on his lifestyle, and on French law rega...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

AEA announcements of a market design sort: conference organization and part-time teaching

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The AEA announcement email of 2/13/12 contains the following bits of market design aimed at managing congestion in a thick market, and creat...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Matching in Budapest in July: call for papers

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First announcement and call for papers (with apologies if you receive this more than once):                            MATCH-UP 2...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Is it possible to be too young or too thin?

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Could using too young or too thin fashion models become repugnant? The NY Times is on the case:  Checking Models’ IDs at the Door "I...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

False positives in the reporting of experiments

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Here's an article suggesting that _lots_ of false positives get introduced into the experimental literature, and they suggest some exper...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Unraveling of college admissions: more students apply early

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When markets unravel, we often see dates at which transactions are finalized move earlier and earlier. Something different is going on in c...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Peer review as a club good

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Peer review is a system that scientists love to criticize, and occasionally changes are suggested in the design of this important part of th...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

A call for fair-trade pornography

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Fair-trade pornography: Ethically sourced food and beauty products are labeled. Why not porn?  asks Erika Christakis in the Boston Globe. ...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Parentage, and citizenship, and the market for reproductive services

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One of the ways a baby can automatically be an American citizen is if one of its parents is an American citizen. So new options in fertility...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

A long nonsimultaneous extended altruistic donor chain in the NY Times

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60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked A nice NY Times story, about a nonsimultaneous chain organized by Garet Hil's  National Kidney Reg...

Horse meat at the Harvard faculty club

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At the Harvard faculty club (starting I believe in WW I or II) "members happily consumed horsemeat , obtained from the racetrack at Suf...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Markets for cadavers

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ABC news has an 18 minute video on the market for cadavers used in recent popular anatomy exhibits. They conclude that many of these are obt...
Friday, February 17, 2012

A public good of a sort: a community gun

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The NY Times reports: In a Mailbox: A Shared Gun, Just for the Asking "Hidden and shared by a small group of people who use them when...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Penny wise and pound foolish: now in the NEJM

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It's truer than ever that in the United States we have a foolish Medicare policy of only paying for three years of anti-rejection drugs ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The nursery school for the kid who has everything...

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...costs more than Harvard... Bracing for $40,000 at City Private Schools "Over the past 10 years, the median price of first grade in...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Matching and market design for Valentine's day

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Valentine's day always inspires lots of stories about matching, and lately some of these are also about market design.  Here are some th...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Incentive compatibility in a giant outdoor 18th century restaurant

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"the waiters were prevented from cheating the management by being made to pay cash from their own pockets for everything they ordered f...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Common App and college admissions

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An article on updated software to be used for college admissions by the Common Application process reflects how the process of applying to ...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Is forced marriage human trafficking or cultural variation?

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A British author asks that question: Forced Marriages Dishonour Britain "If white British women were being forced to marry men they h...