Friday, September 14, 2018

Economists and economics in tech companies, by Athey and Luca

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Susan Athey and Mike Luca have a new paper about the job market for economists in tech companies, and about the jobs they do there: Econ...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

The National Science Foundation's History Wall and Murals

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The NSF's history wall consists of three murals, to provide "a visual history of the National Science Foundation (NSF), spanning n...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

School choice is expanding in Chile

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School choice is expanding in Chile: Sistema de Admisión Escolar comienza a operar en Tarapacá, Coquimbo, O’Higgins y Los Lagos Google t...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Kidney exchange and computation

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Here's an article on how computation--broadly characterized as artificial intelligence--has changed kidney transplantation. It gives so...
Monday, September 10, 2018

An illegal market for marijuana that enjoys effective local support in Copenhagen

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The NY Times reports on the current state of affairs in "Christiania Freetown, the hippie commune in the center of Copenhagen." I...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

College admissions "customer relations management" software, and the marketing of Slate

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a story about customer-relations management systems (CRMs) used by colleges to organize their marketing and ...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

The first global kidney exchange: temporarily ungated link

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Here's a shareable link to the paper below, which I blogged about earlier without having an ungated link. This link is good til October...
Friday, September 7, 2018

Societal Support for Paying Plasma Donors in Canada By Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis

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Here's a concise summary of recent work by Lacetera and Macis, as a Cato Institute Research Brief: Societal Support for Paying Plasm...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

The DOJ may not get the last word on supervised injection sites

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The WP has the story: Cities defiant after Justice Department’s threat on ‘supervised injection sites "Cities seeking to open sites...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

EconSpark: AEA Economics Discussion Forum

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The AEA has launched a moderated discussion forum for issues of interest to economists, including (but not limited to) the Economics job ma...

Repugnance watch: In Paris: are public urinals (for men) sexist?

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The NY Times has the story: With Tampons and Concrete, Vandals Hit Paris Urinals Seen as Sexist "To some, the new street urinals i...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Ignazio Marino on global kidney exchange

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Ignazio Marino , the veteran transplant surgeon who also happens to have been Mayor of Rome, kindly shared with me this post from his blog ...
Monday, September 3, 2018

The perils of (too) sharply reducing opioid prescriptions

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The ongoing opioid epidemic in the U.S. (and elsewhere) has at least some of its origins in the over-prescription of opioid painkillers. So...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

The DOJ argues against harm reduction measures for drug addicts

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In an opinion piece in the NY Times, Rod Rosenstein,  the deputy attorney general of the United States, comes out against harm reduction me...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Market design class at Harvard taught by Scott Kominers

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If you are a Harvard student, check out Scott Kominer's Fall market design class. Here's the course outline . Market Design ...
Friday, August 31, 2018

The market for influence, by Fainmesser and Galeotti (the movie)

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Here's a nicely done "trailer" for a paper by Itay Fainmesser and Andrea Galeotti. It's a three minute video... ...

Blasphemy as a repugnant transaction. versus free speech as a protected transaction

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Here's a headline from The Guardian which basically tells the whole of the news story: Muhammad cartoon contest in Netherlands sparks...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

James Mirrlees 1936-2018

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Here's the brief initial announcement from the University of Cambridge: Professor Sir James Mirrlees 1936-2018 "It is with ...

European Collaboration on Kidney Exchange (program for meeting in Italy)

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Note the various discussions of transnational kidney exchange...some of that will involve exchange within the EU, and some will involve dea...