Saturday, May 10, 2014

The young Francesco Guala on experimental economics

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Francesco Guala is a philosopher of science at U. of Milan, whose work deals with economics, and who has written about experimental econom...
Friday, May 9, 2014

The college admissions scramble

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The National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) has posted its annual bulletin board of the more than 250 colleges that...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Should there be a centralized clearinghouse for college admissions?

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College admissions seems quite different than the markets for medical residents and fellows, because colleges have much more flexibility ov...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Maybe I didn't ruin the medical labor market after all

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In a recent post I remarked on a Forbes blog post by a medical student at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School who proposed...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Repugnant transactions in Nigeria: education, kidnapping and slavery

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The news out of Nigeria has too many repugnant transactions to shake a stick at. The Islamic organization Boko Haram, whose name apparently...
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Monday, May 5, 2014

Kidney Exchange and Operations Research: Edelman award presentation (video)

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Here are all the 2014 Edelman Award Presentations , including the one my colleagues and I gave on kidney exchange, on March 31. Ours is the...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Gary Becker 1930-2014

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Speaking of kidneys, the sad news this morning is that Gary Becker has passed away. I heard it by phone, and a quick search turned up Greg ...

Sally Satel on Why People Don’t Donate Their Kidneys

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Sally Satel, in Sunday's NY Times, argues for some forms of compensation for donors, even if short of cash payments:  Why People Don’t ...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Experiments in this life and second life

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Here's an experiment done online, back when Second Life looked like it would be big... Is avatar-to-avatar communication as effective...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Disgraced basketball team owners and kidney transplants--an unexpected connection

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Virginia Postrel draws the connection: Latest Sterling Outrage Victim? Kidneys "Earlier this month, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donal...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

School choice: fewer kids getting first choice may be a sign of success

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Here's a report from Denver:  Fewer top choice placements in Denver’s school selection process Denver’s SchoolChoice process is a thr...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Kim Krawiec's class on Taboo Trades

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If you're interested in repugnant transactions, Kim Krawiec 's webpage for her class at Duke on Taboo Trades is a great resource, ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The market for affairs

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Here's the latest on the growing 'infidelity economy', facilitated by the website Ashley Madison, about which I've blogged ...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Repugnant transaction watch: New Hampshire Senate votes to repeal anti-adultery law

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Here's the story , which comes with this map of states with anti-adultery laws: "Adultery isn't just a crime in the eyes o...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Law clerk hiring

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Over at Concurring Opinions a little while ago was this : The Law Clerk Hiring Process – An Interview with Federal Judge Thomas Ambro Qu...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

NAS Research Briefings, 2014

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 I'm in Washington DC today and will give a short talk at the National Academy of Sciences, along with several other new members. Sat...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Iranian blog with ads for selling kidneys

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Here's a website (in Persian) in which prospective kidney sellers advertise. Google translate worked well enough to give me an idea ...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014

X-STEM symposium: Promoting STEM fields to K-12 Students, April 24

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Getting more American kids interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields seems like a worthwhile endeavor. ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

"What have we learned from market design?" now freely available from the EJ

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My 2008 paper What have we learned from market design? is now out from behind the subscription wall and freely available from the EJ. (It ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

More on circumcision

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Circumcision is a medical procedure that is also a traditional religious ritual for Jews and Muslims. There are also those who regard it as...
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