Tuesday, February 5, 2013

ESRC Game Theory Workshop: Matching Under Preferences, Feb 6 at the LSE

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http://www.maths.lse.ac.uk/ESRC_Game_Theory_Workshop.html   Wednesday, February 6, 2013,   London School of Economics ESRC Game Theory...
Monday, February 4, 2013

School choice in Chicago and England, and some ideas about comparing manipulabiliby

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The current (February 2013) issue of the AER has the following paper by Parag Pathak and Tayfun Sonmez, which combines some incisive observa...
Sunday, February 3, 2013

Opt-out for organ donation faces opposition in Maryland

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Religious groups oppose Maryland organ donation bill " Maryland residents would have to opt out of the state's organ donation sys...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

I predict a surge in demand for kosher beef in Britain...

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...after reading this in the Telegraph: Tesco beef burgers found to contain 29% horse meat "In Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers, hor...
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Friday, February 1, 2013

I speak at Birmingham Feb 4

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http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/business/departments/economics/events/2013/february/prof-al-roth-nobel-prize-winner-guest-lecture.aspx ...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

The American Gastroenterological Association takes note of the Nobel for market design

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The redesign of the match for Gastroenterology fellows is one of the projects mentioned in the Nobel documentation on p23 ), and the AGA tak...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The D.C. Circuit Rules that the Law Clerk Hiring Plan is History

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Notice Regarding Law Clerk Hiring By D.C. Circuit Judges for the 2014-2015 Term Although the judges of this circuit would uniformly pre...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

College admissions in China

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Yan Chen and Onur Kesten have a new version of their paper on school choice mechanisms, inspired by the Chinese college admissions experienc...
Monday, January 28, 2013

The price of lunch for a good cause...we could do it by skype...on eBay today

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Here's the eBay auction that will determine who I have lunch with at some future date. I'll be checking on it this evening, to fin...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Dating is so 20th century (and how about marriage?)

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Two recent articles on online dating sites both think that internet dating is changing courtship and marriage, by making it too easy to meet...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Repugnant organization of academic journals?

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A new mathematics journal is raising questions about whether it might be promoting repugnant transactions. Timothy Gowers , one of the edito...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Women soldiers in combat

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The road to a top job in the American armed forces lies in the combat branches, and soldiers can be forgiven for wanting combat experience. ...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Tim Harford talks about kidney transplants and kidney exchange

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Tim Harford talks about kidney transplants and kidney exchange in his new BBC Pop-Up Economics podcast that you can listen to  here  (about ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Market design for everyone (from libertarians to socialists)

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Organized markets inevitably have rules, which establish the playing field rather than determine outcomes, which is what makes market design...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Organs and elections in Israel

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Assaf Romm wrote to me yesterday about a plan to solicit registrations for Israel's deceased organ donor list at today's national e...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Mechanisms of Matching: Stability and Applications (Lars Ehlers in French in Ottawa)

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Lars Ehlers will be presenting a talk on Mechanisms of Matching: Stability and Applications, in connection with the 2012 Nobel prize. The a...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Unraveling of college job hunting (and internships too)

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Businessweek reports on the recruiting of undergrads, particularly undergrad business majors: A Speedier Timetable for the College Job Hun...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

HAL R. VARIAN CHAIR IN INFORMATION ECONOMICS

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Berkeley has a great new endowed chair, joint in Economics and the I-School, named for (and partly endowed by) the remarkable Google chief e...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Lunch (with me) for a good cause, to be auctioned on eBay

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The auction will start this weekend... The fundraiser auction for Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley, for a lunch date with me (or...
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Kidney exchange and market design at the NBER

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The NBER has disseminated a lot of the work on kidney exchange, and asked me to summarize that work, in the December 2012 issue of the NBER ...