Thursday, May 7, 2020

Price versus waiting time in a ride sharing market

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Here's an interesting paper on ride sharing, with estimates of the tradeoffs that individuals make between price and waiting time. The ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Testing (for virus and/or antibodies) as a component of ending corona pandemic lockdowns

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Yesterday I wrote about how  contact tracing  could play a big role in relaxing corona pandemic lockdowns.  How about very large scale test...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Contact tracing as a component of ending corona pandemic lock-downs

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One important idea behind 'flattening the curve' of covid-19 cases is that, if lockdowns reduce the case rate sufficiently, the eco...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Transplants under lockdown (but beginning to pick up)

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Since the beginning of pandemic lockdowns, living donor kidney surgeries in the U.S. have almost ceased (partly because living donor surger...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Repugnance watch: Hungary moves to roll back legal recognition of transsexuality

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The covid-19 pandemic has allowed a consolidation of authoritarian power in Hungary, as also elsewhere, which can take some odd forms. Th...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Test design and gender gaps in performance--evidence from a national exam in Chile, by Coffman and Klinowski

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Here's a recent paper from PNAS: The impact of penalties for wrong answers on the gender gap in test scores Katherine B. Coffman and...
Friday, May 1, 2020

Yelping about restaurant health violations, by Dai and Luca

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Online reviews, like Yelp, can play an effective role in disseminating information about restaurant hygiene scores... Digitizing Disclosu...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

When supply chains break down, brokers make markets

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During the Arab oil embargo of the U.S. in 1973, I remember hearing an oil broker discuss his day. He would cold call companies that used o...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Hoarding and price gouging during Corona troubles

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It appears we now have a Federal price gouging law. Bloomberg has the story: Accused New York Mask Hoarder Is First Charged Under Defens...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

AEA Awards: Clark Medal and Distinguished Fellows

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Here's the AEA announcement: 2020 American Economic Association Awards Congratulations to the 2020 John Bates Clark Medalist, Meliss...

Mentoring women assistant professors of Economics: an RCT (and some thoughts on the word "mentor")

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From the NBER: Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial Donna K. Ginther, Janet Cu...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Corona virus research networks for economists

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Corona virus, and the lockdowns and other policies it elicits, are attracting considerable attention from economists.  Below are some effor...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

City of Science museum in Naples

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Last June I gave some talks in Italy (back when there were airplanes, and in-person talks--remember?) One side trip took me to the City of ...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

More essential services, from the lockdown in New Zealand

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The Guardian has the breaking news from New Zealand (and the sub-headline makes you glad for experts..): Sex toy sales triple during New...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber (1965-2020), who founded "Gift of Life" kidney donor organization

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Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber, who founded the Matnat Chaim ("Gift of Life") organization of kidney donors in Israel, has died of coronav...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Gaming organ allocation: Heart failure treatment responds to changes in the priority rules for heart transplants

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Recent changes in the allocation of deceased donor hearts for transplantation have focused on what kinds of mechanical interventions a pati...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Surrogacy finally becomes legal in New York

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Passed last month, to come into effect next year, New York follows most of the rest of the country into the American consensus on surrogacy...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Residential real estate sales, social distancing, and traditional marketplace institutions

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In some places, residential real estate is an essential service (open houses allowed) and in others not.  Virtual, internet showings are be...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Organ donation after medically assisted dying, in Canada

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In the New England Journal of Medicine, with many authors, Organ Donation after Medical Assistance in Dying — Canada’s First Cases Febru...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Bike matching in NYC

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Program Matches Bicycles To Essential Workers Who Need Them In New York  ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: If you're looking for ways that you can...