Saturday, August 6, 2016

Market Design Perspectives on Inequality--conference at HCEO, Chicago, Aug 6-7

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The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at Chicago is holding a conference on  Market Design Perspectives on Inequa...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Matching refugees and landlords in Sweden, by Tommy Andersson and Lars Ehlers

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 After refugees have found a country of asylum, there's still work to do. Here's some help on how to do it in Sweden: Assigning R...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Dr Jeff Veale in the WSJ on vouchers for living donor kidneys

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Give a Kidney, Get a Kidney--An innovative voucher program started in 2014 at UCLA is spreading across the country.  By JEFFREY VEALE Aug. ...

Reverse college admissions scramble in British clearing

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In Britain, students get admitted to university (sometimes contingently) before their grades are known. So some students don't get the ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

First kidney exchange in Nepal

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A change in the law removed the last obstacle. The Himalayan Times has the story:  Paired kidney exchange first time in Nepal "Kathm...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Mergers of taxi-hailing services in Europe, and China

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Europe is preparing to defend itself against Uber. Bloomberg has the story: Daimler Targets Uber by Merging Mytaxi With U.K.’s Hailo ...
Monday, August 1, 2016

An interview with the late Lloyd Shapley, on incentives, in Spanish

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In Argentina's La Nacion Para aliviar la suba de tarifas, el camino son los incentivos SEGUIR Juan Carlos de Pablo LA NACION ...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

Scalping Hamilton

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The NY Times has the story:  How Scalpers Make Their Millions With ‘Hamilton’ "For most of May, the median price of a ticket on the ...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Exorcism: "Mistress dispellers" in China

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The NY Times has the story:  China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’ "Mistress-dispelling services, incr...
Friday, July 29, 2016

British immigration: more time combating clandestine immigrants means less time investigating scams

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What do immigration inspectors do? The Telegraph has the story:  Overwhelmed border guards diverted from other immigration scams to deal ...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Refugees from Central America

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The NY times has the story:  U.S. to Admit More Central American Refugees "The White House on Tuesday announced a substantial expans...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

An unusual kind of sex worker in Malawi

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Here's a story (and video) and then a followup story from the BBC that reports a surprising twist in sex for hire:  The man employed to...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Sperm banks may need some regulation

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The NY Times has the story:  Sperm Banks Accused of Losing Samples and Lying About Donors Some of the problems reported in the story are ...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Trust and crime: Reputation in the (illegal) market for sex

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Quartz has an article on how sex workers can vet new customers, in the age of the internet:  Sex workers have created the perfect method fo...
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Repugnance watch: Pokemon in Saudi Arabia

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Reuters has the story: Top Saudi clerical body renews fatwa against Pokemon "The General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Relig...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

ABC video about a long kidney chain (old, but well done)

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This is about a 2015 chain organized by NKR: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/donating-kidney-complete-stranger-order-save-loved/story?id=3028...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Bride Price and Female Education by Ashraf, Bau, Nunn and Voena

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A new NBER working paper suggests that the institution of bride price, often regarded as a repugnant transaction, may provide incentives to...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Matching Markets and Market Design: Theory and Application at the NBER on Tuesday July 26

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Here's the email from the NBER "As a reminder, on Tuesday afternoon, July 26, Alvin Roth, Parag Pathak, Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Ni...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Update on compensation for bone marrow donors

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Frank McCormick emails about a new movie concerning the 9th Circuit court case which ruled that it might be legal to compensate certain kin...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

"Black market" surrogacy in England, and subsequent legal complications

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Organizing markets without a strong legal framework can be tricky; here's a British surrogacy story from the law blog Above the Law:  I...