Monday, December 21, 2015

Recap of the Sonnenschein celebration at Chicago (with a video)

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Here's a recap from the Becker Friedman Institute:  The Path Ahead for Economic Theory Here's the video of a panel discussion ...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

From Bolivia, where the legal working age is now 10 years old

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Nico Lacetera points me to this NY Times video on the differing views about child labor in Bolivia, where the legal working age has been l...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Voluntary deceased organ donation in China

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It's always hard to parse the Chinese organ data, and know what is going on in the military hospitals, but here's an encouraging st...
Friday, December 18, 2015

A skeptical look at "nudges" in the Atlantic (which reminds me of Loewenstein's 2010 op-ed in the NY Times)

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In the Atlantic, a recent complaint about the tendency to over-promote the efficacy of"nudges" as inexpensive solutions to big pr...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

American Medical Association adopts resolution calling for increased incentives for organ donation

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I'm not completely clear on the parliamentary procedures of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates, but Frank McCorm...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Amsterdam school choice: next year will be single tie-breaking deferred acceptance (instead of multiple tie-breaking)

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In Amsterdam, the school choice debates have been resolved for now. Next year, there will be a deferred acceptance algorithm with single ti...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Curious Minds interviews me about matching, market design, and a phone call that set me on my path (podcast)

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CM 014: Alvin Roth on the Secrets of Market Design By  Gayle  |  December 14, 2015  |  0  Audio Player 06:34 31:2...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Climate change agreement, on Bloomberg Surveillance this morning

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I discussed this weekend's climate change agreement on Bloomberg Surveillance from minute 33 to 41, which you can listen to here Downlo...

Technology watch: does Crispr create a new class of repugnant transactions?

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The NY Times has the story: Scientists Seek Moratorium on Edits to Human Genome That Could Be Inherited "An international group of ...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

How do Uber drivers get home at the end of the day?

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Uber's matching algorithm takes drivers' destinations into account at the end of their working day: here's Uber's announcem...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Sandro Ambuehl in the Washington Post: How incentives can change the way you evaluate options (and not just the choices you make)

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Jeff Guo at the Washington Post has written a nice account of Sandro Ambuehl 's jobmarket p aper . Here's the WashPo story:  The se...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Is "program hiring" a new name for unraveling?

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The WSJ has the story:  When a Job Offer Comes Without a Job "Some companies are hiring first and figuring out jobs for these recrui...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

New market designers: class photos at Stanford and Harvard

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Two end of class photos, for market design classes at Stanford and Harvard (where it hasn't been taught for a while, and was taught thi...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Book talk in Toronto, tomorrow, Dec 10

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Big Ideas Speaker Series @ Rotman Event Details Speaker Series Date: Thursday December 10, 2015  | 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM Speaker(...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Suspected organ trafficker arrested

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YNet has the story: Turkish authorities arrest Israeli suspected of organ trafficking Boris Wolfman, who was indicted in Israel but manage...
Monday, December 7, 2015

Jean Tirole interviewed in the Financial Times

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Tirole thinks both about French economists and the French economy: French lessons from a Nobel Prize winner "...Laffont and Tirole ...

Airbnb Replies (with some data) to the Report of the NY State Attorney General

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Here's a 2014 report by the NY State Attorney General's office, Airbnb in the city Short-Term Rentals Experienced Explosive Gro...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

Preston McAfee peers into the future (and sees market design)

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Microsoft offers predictions from some of its futurists (and apparently economics fits somewhere between AI and data science...: From AI...

Improving Schools in MA: conference in Boston tomorrow

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The conference in Boston tomorrow looks like a nice mix of academic researchers and education officials:   Leveraging Research and Policy ...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

The Handbook of Market Design--now in paperback

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The Handbook of Market Design is now available in paperback: here's what the publisher (Oxford U Press) has to say about it. New in...