Friday, February 14, 2020

Once-a-year dating match services for college students

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Valentine's Day is a good day to take note of dating services that operate only once a year, particularly since one of them, Datamatch ...

The market for chocolate

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The NY Times has the story, just in time for Valentine's Day: Everything You Don’t Know About Chocolate The beloved bar has come a ...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Online dating while female--the case of Bumble

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The above figure is from the following Bloomberg story about (and critical of) the dating app Bumble. For Bumble, the Future Isn’t Fe...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Organ sharing in San Diego--UNOS Region 5 educational collaborative

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I'll be flying to San Diego later this morning to take part in the UNOS Region 5 Educational Collaborative Here's the Agenda . ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

An experiment with a blood donor registry in Australia

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Forthcoming in Management Science: Redesigning the Market for Volunteers: A Donor Registry Stephanie A. Heger, Robert Slonim, Ellen Garba...
Monday, February 10, 2020

The blowback following Trump's executive order concerning dialysis

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It turns out that traditional dialysis providers are not rallying behind President Trump's suggestion that home dialysis could serve ma...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Deceased donor organs, lost to transplantation due to problems in transportation

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NBC News has the story: Lost luggage: How lifesaving organs for transplant go missing in transit Scores of organs — mostly kidneys — are...
Saturday, February 8, 2020

Market designs to reduce the costs of high frequency trading, by Baldauf and Mollner

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A forthcoming paper by Markus Baldauf and Joshua Mollner considers two designs to reduce the costs of (and incentives for) very high freque...
Friday, February 7, 2020

What is the cost of high frequency trading? by Aquilina, Budish, and O'Neill

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A recent WSJ article highlights a paper by Aquilina, Budish, and O'Neill: Ultrafast Trading Costs Stock Investors Nearly $5 Billion a...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

70th Anniversary of the National Science Foundation (NSF)

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The (U.S.) National Science Foundation is celebrating its 70th anniversary today in Washington DC.  Here's the program:  70th Annivers...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Market Design at 25, May 14-15 in Washington DC

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The NBER is holding a conference in May, in Washington. "The conference, which has been organized by Irene Lo, Michael Ostrovsky, an...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Presenting results anecdatally (and other stories about presenting data to policy makers)

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I've recently been involved in several efforts to present data to policy makers who, rightly or wrongly, react more strongly to well-to...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Unraveling of appellate court clerkships (only more so)

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Steve Leider writes: "I know you keep an eye on the unraveling of judicial hiring.  Listening to a podcast about the supreme court t...
Sunday, February 2, 2020

Caught between a block and a high place: legal cannabis firms struggling to compete with the still thriving black market

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Blocked from using federal bankruptcy protections, cannabis businesses that are legal under state laws but illegal under federal laws are f...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

Long kidney exchange in Ahmedabad, India

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Vivek Kute writes with the news: IKDRC completes India’s longest cross-transplant chain "Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research ...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Residency explorer (for new doctors)

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Amidst all the concerns about the ballooning number of applications and interviews involved in preparing for the NRMP resident match, here...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

More on social studies of markets--from José Ossandón

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José Ossandón writes, in response to my earlier post about social studies of markets: "   I was very glad to find the post in your b...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Early admissions for medical residencies? An anguished response to the increasing numbers of applications and interviews.

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Here's a proposal to introduce something like the early admissions programs that have become common in college admissions (where they c...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Patricia Kravey on non-directed organ donation

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From my recent email, a nuanced yet inspiring story from non-directed donor Patricia Kravey. " I’ve been meaning to write you for ...
Monday, January 27, 2020

100 years since Prohibition

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An op-ed in the NY Times points out that Prohibition didn't start suddenly when the 18th Amendment went into effect in January 1920--it...