Saturday, April 4, 2020

Sheltering in place (or maybe someplace else), repugnantly

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Many fewer things would be regarded as repugnant were it not for underlying inequality. So it shouldn't surprise us to see new repugnan...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Choosing who to interview in the sports medicine fellowship match

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Little is known about what goes on between application to fellowship (or residency) programs, and rank-ordering for the relevant medical Ma...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Bikes and guns while sheltering in place in Santa Clara County (bikes are essential, guns are not)

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From the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health, a new shelter in place order that defines, among other things, "essential bus...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Headlines that could be dated April 1

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Something was in the air this year: many headlines in serious outlets struck me as appropriate for April Fools Day. Non-political ones co...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Complacency, Not Panic, Is the Real Danger: Ido Erev in the NYT

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A timely article points out that many of us are more likely to underestimate dangers (like corona virus) than overestimate them. Complace...
Monday, March 30, 2020

How to efficiently (re)distribute ventilators (and masks, gowns, test kits...)?

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How to allocate scarce medical goods, when all signals indicate shortages of everything, everywhere (but some needs are more immediate and ...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Family legacies in Operations Research (and related fields)

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ORMS Today has an article on multi-generations of operations researchers, broadly defined. Like father, like son and daughter All in the...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Repugnant Behavior, a conference in Montpellier in February 2021

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Here's the announcement and call for papers: WINIR Workshop on Repugnant Behaviours 24-25 February 2021 University of Mo...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Death with dignity, in Germany

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Medically assisted suicide, controversial everywhere, has come to Germany. The Lancet reports: Germany overturns ban on assisted suicide...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

NSF report on Doctorate Recipients in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE): 2017

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Here's the Doctorate Recipients in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE): 2017 NSF 20-310   |   March 16, 2020 There w...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Litigation financing revisited

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It looks like litigation financing--i.e. the financing of legal suits for a share of the proceeds--is here to stay, and the New York City B...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Celebrating Hervé Moulin's 70th Birthday, in Mexico City, in June (maybe)

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Not many scholars are as worthy of celebration as Hervé Moulin, so I was glad to see this announcement (from before corona virus achieved p...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Foie gras and NY farm workers

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The NY Times ran this story: A Luxury Dish Is Banned, and a Rural County Reels The ban protects animals and slaps wealthy gourmands. But...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

School choice without the assumption of full-information equilibrium by Kapor, Neilson and Zimmerman

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Forthcoming in the AER: Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Mechanisms By Adam J. Kapor and Christopher A. Neilson and Seth D. Zimmer...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Power of Experiments by Mike Luca and Max Bazerman

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New this month from MIT Press, a history and guide to experiments in (mostly) online businesses: The Power of Experiments Decision Mak...
Friday, March 20, 2020

NRMP Match Day (and corona virus precautions)

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Today, Friday, is Match Day, the day when new American medical school graduates and others find out the residency programs to which they ha...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

The labor force that is the Army

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The Army Times has this story: Choose your job: Army offers soldiers career agency to bolster retention Kyle Rempfer "Assignment ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Essential and inessential services under corona virus lockdown (guess before reading--coffee, cannabis, etc?)

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We're under "shelter in place" orders in Santa Clara County, with everyone hunkering down, except for essential services: B...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Intermediation in the wholesale pharmaceutical market, by Alex Chan and Kevin Schulman

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Intermediaries called Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play an important, but complicated role in the market for pharmaceutical drugs. Here...
Monday, March 16, 2020

The Advance Market Commitment for pneumonia vaccine, by Kremer, Levin, and Snyder

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Advance Market Commitments: Insights from Theory and Experience Michael Kremer, Jonathan D. Levin, Christopher M. Snyder NBER Working Pa...