Friday, June 3, 2016

Uber, surge pricing, and how much battery life is left in your phone (they know)

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The Telegraph has the (scary) story, after chatting with Keith Chen :  Uber knows customers with dying batteries are more likely to accept ...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Kidney exchange in Australia--update

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A report from The West Australian on a four-pair exchange includes some stats on kidney exchange in Australia:   Amazing kidney swap surger...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Matching in Practice (joint with Advances in Market Design) June 2 - June 3

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11th workshop Matching in Practice (joint with Advances in Market Design) June 2  -  June 3  Our next Matching in Practice worksho...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Gazumping in England: repugnant and soon to be illegal?

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When does a contract to sell a home become binding? That may be about to change in England. The Telegraph has the story. Relief for home b...
Monday, May 30, 2016

My Lucia Lecture at Villanova (video)

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Sunday, May 29, 2016

The market for Ph.D.'s, in the survey of earned doctorates

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A report on the survey of earned doctorates is out, with data from 2014: DOCTORATE RECIPIENTS FROM U.S. UNIVERSITIES NATIONAL CENTER FOR ...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Immigration to the U.S. since 1820 (animated graphic)

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Click on the link below for the animated graphic (which I couldn't figure out how to embed). Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration (1 dot ...
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Friday, May 27, 2016

School choice in NYC middle schools has some catching up to do

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While highschools in NYC have a carefully designed school choice system, elementary and middle school choice is more chaotic. Lots of middl...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Proposed legislation offers incentives to living organ donors

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The Pittsburgh Tribune Review has the story Proposed legislation offers incentives to living organ donors in Pa. "A Pennsylvania la...

Matching refugees to towns in Britain: Tim Harford in the FT

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In the Financial Times, Tim Harford writes about resettling refugees: The refugee crisis — match us if you can--‘However many refugees we d...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Aumann Lecture (video): Economists as Engineers: Game Theory and Market Design

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Here's a video of my Aumann Lecture last week in Israel--I took as my starting point Bob's 1985 paper "What is Game Theory Try...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

A National Academy of Sciences report on kidney exchange, and market design

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As part of their outreach to the general public, the National Academy of Sciences has initiated a series of  reports called A NATIONAL ACAD...
Monday, May 23, 2016

The Transplant Donation Global Leadership Symposium

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I'll be in Del Mar for the next few days to speak and hear about transplant practices around the world. Here's the conference anno...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

The UAE may soon allow organ transplants

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The Gulf News has the story. (I hadn't realized that transplantation was a repugnant transaction in the United Arab Emirates. In fact i...

Clearinghouses for IOU's in the 13th through 18th centuries: by Borner and Hatfield

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Here's a market design/economic history paper about early financial clearinghouses, forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy: ...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Uber competes with rental cars too, not just taxis

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From Bloomberg:  Uber Overtakes Rental Cars Among Business Travelers
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Friday, May 20, 2016

Georgia plans national matchmaking service as marriage rate falls (the country, not the U.S. state)

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The Guardian has the story: Georgia plans national matchmaking service as marriage rate falls National database of singletons proposed to...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Circumcision, in the NY Times

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The NY Times has a column by a pediatrician, discussing the medical evidence bearing on circumcision of infants in the United States:  Shou...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

First annual Aumann Lecture, May 19, at National Game Theory Conference at Tel Aviv University

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I'll be giving the 2016 Aumann Lecture tomorrow at the (Israel) National Game Theory Conference at Tel Aviv University, 19-May-2016:  :...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Market/Mechanism Design in Israel at Bar-Ilan University, Wednesday May 18

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If you are going to be in Tel Aviv tomorrow... MARKET/MECHANISM DESIGN IN ISRAEL,  BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY, MAY 18, 2016 Here's the prog...