Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Congestion and competition in college admissions (in the WSJ)

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Is college admissions ripe for re-design?  (The problems outlined are real, but I'm skeptical that there's the consensus needed for...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Seema Jayachandran on the Banerjee, Duflo, Kremer Nobel, in the NYT

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The Economic View column of the NY Times, by someone who knows the subject, and the subjects very well: When a Disappointment Helped Lead...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Who is a refugee? Remembering U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata

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The Lancet recalls the life and work of Sadako Ogata, born 16 September 1927; died 22 October 2019. Sadako Ogata "Sadako Ogata bega...
Sunday, December 1, 2019

Divorce as a repugnant transaction

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A recent obituary reminds me that divorce used to be a repugnant transaction, to which there were barriers even when both partners in a mar...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Video: Big Data and Global Kidney Matching

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Here's a talk, just recently posted on the web, that I gave in China at the Luohan Academy in Hangzhou, in June 2019.
Friday, November 29, 2019

Paying participants in economic experiments, in Ireland, in jeopardy

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On Wednesday I received some email correspondence about a difficulty being faced by experimental economists in Ireland, who may be forbidde...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Regulations gone awry -- an example from transplantation

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A general lesson of market design is that participants have big strategy sets, so any given set of rules can have unanticipated undesirable...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Academic (computer science) conferences as marketplaces

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Eppstein and Vazirani propose a centralized marketplace for computer science conferences: A Market for TCS Papers?? November 19, 2019 by...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The future of economic design: a book of short essays, edited by Laslier, Moulin, Sanver, and . Zwicker

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Here's a new book that I haven't seen yet, except on the internet. There's a long table of contents at the link, and you can cl...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Matching officers to branches at West Point

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West Point grads get assignments through new branching system By Brandon OConnor "During a ceremony Nov. 13, 1,089 members of the ...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

First kidney exchange in Denmark

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The first Danish incompatible patient-donor pair has received a transplant in an exchange with a pair in "another Scandinavian country...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Kidney exchange in Time Magazine

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Time celebrates kidney exchange: Kidney Swaps Are Revolutionizing a Broken Organ-Donation System in the U.S. " While kidney swaps ...
Friday, November 22, 2019

Harvey Prize to Christos Papadimitriou

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The Technion's 2018 Harvey Prize prize, to Christos Papadimitriou , has been only recently announced: it will be awarded this month. ...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Aiming for diversity in Brooklyn schools

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The Washington Post  has the story: What happened when Brooklyn tried to integrate its middle schools   By Laura Meckler "New York...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

NYC school choice: long lines for high school tours (and some confusion about first choices)

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The high school choice process in New York City uses an algorithm that makes it safe for families to list high schools in their order of pr...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Milgrom Marshall Lectures at University of Cambridge

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Paul Milgrom will be giving the 2019-2020 Marshall Lectures at Cambridge today and tomorrow.  Here's a video abstract by Paul: 2...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Interview with Parag Pathak on schools, and market design

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From Business Insider: Parents choosing high schools for their kids place more value on the students already enrolled than on the school...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Liver Paired Exchange: Ready for Prime Time in North America?

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An editorial in the November 2019 Liver Transplantation considers, among other things, how liver exchange might be more coercive than live...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Is repugnance to foie gras contagious?

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The Guardian has the story from the UK, focusing on a particular restaurant, and its proprietor, who has withstood protests: Pressure gro...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Controversial markets: Seminar at Pitt

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I'll be speaking at Pitt today, in the experimental/behavioral seminar : Controversial Markets 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., 4940 Posva...