Monday, September 17, 2012

Summer law associates: offer rates

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The blog Above the Law is tracking law firms which give permanent offers to 100% of their summer associates , before they head back to their...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Miscellaneous School choice in the news

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Here are some stories that I marked but never got around to blogging about... Denver: DPS busts parents lying for seats "DPS offici...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Auction design within online games

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This looks worth following up on...Michael Giberson reports Poor market design causing high prices in Diablo III auction house? http://ars...
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Further discussion of markets for organs: some new books

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Some books that address markets for organs, including an ethnography of transplants in Israel... A Market in Organs Pp. 128-143 Mir...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Paying for human waste tissue used in research: Should it be repugnant? forbidden? allowed? mandated?

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Scott Kominers alerts me to the recent debate taking place in the pages of Science . He writes "Gary Becker and I have a brief lette...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Experimental economics at Stanford SITE, Sept 14 and 15

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Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Summer 2012 Workshop Segment 5:  Experimental Economics September 14 and 15, 2012...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

NBER market design conference Oct 19-20, 2012: preliminary program

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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. Market Design Working Group Meeting Susan Athey and Parag Pathak , Organizers October 19-2...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Charter schools and waiting lists in D.C. schools

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When school choice procedures result in some children having multiple offers, others must wait for an assignment, which can be taxing. Even ...
Monday, September 10, 2012

30 years of the ultimatum game

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Come celebrate in Cologne at the 2012 ESA European Conference , Sept. 12-15. "In 1982 Güth, Schmittberger, and Schwarze published the...
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Sunday, September 9, 2012

Gastroeconomics

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There has been a lot of interest in neuroeconomics lately, focusing on decision-making and the brain. But there are also a lot of neurons i...
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Saturday, September 8, 2012

The supply of American doctors

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American medicine is a market with tightly restricted entry, at all levels. Proposed legislation offers a glimpse: Bill Would Create More Me...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Medical internships in Australia are in short supply

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Medical students languish in a critical condition " The Australian Medical Students' Association estimates almost 500 students ...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Fishery management in ancient Hawaii

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Ancient Civilizations Reveal Ways to Manage Fisheries for Sustainability " The authors of the study, titled "Multicentury trends...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Bill of Health: new blog on health law policy

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Here's the announcement of a new blog (in which I hope to find a way to cross-link some posts related to health related market design is...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Unravelling of product announcements--ahead of the new iPhone

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Lucas Coffman points me to the following unravelling story (which I figured I had better post without further delay :)   Rivals Jostle Befor...

Cass Sunstein on the regulator as market designer

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Here's his essay:  Empirically Informed Regulation It was written while Sunstein was Administrator, Office of Information and Regulator...
Monday, September 3, 2012

School choice in Harlem

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The Times reports on school choice in Harlem: School Choice Is No Cure-All, Harlem Finds "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has made school ...

Gender-pricing discrimination

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The NYC Department of Consumer Affairs is on the case, the WSJ reports: City Nails Sex-Based Pricing . Among the targets are salons that c...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

Uri Rothblum's intellectual legacies

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The journal Linear Algebra and its Applications has published an article in memoriam of Uri Rothblum, who passed away in March of this yea...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

Internet dating survey

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Quantifying the Online-Dating Revolution " The internet is especially important in “thin” dating markets, those in which people encou...
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