Monday, October 12, 2020

Finally! Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics

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  Could this be the best Nobel pairing ever?  (It's certainly a great one, and one of the best things to come out of 2020 so far...) Her...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

5000 Market Design blog posts and counting

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  Peter Coles and I started this blog in September 2008, to help alert students in our market design class at Harvard that market design was...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

De-adopting zombie medical procedures

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What happens to medical procedures that are found to be no more effective than placebos?  Some live on for quite a while. One thing that wor...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Jobs for market designers in Washington D.C. and at Facebook

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  I still get a small thrill when I see jobs for market designers appear, appropriately, in places that not so very long ago hadn't hear...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

PNAS celebrates Janet Currie

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 The National Academy of Sciences celebrates Janet Currie in the current issue of PNAS, with an interview and an inaugural article. QnAs wi...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Informs Auctions and Market Design (AMD) Online Seminar Series

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I recently gave a talk on kidney exchange, to help launch the Informs Auctions and Market Design (AMD) Online Seminar Series.  If I've d...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

An open letter to Canadian health authorities on laws against compensating Canadian plasma donors

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  The letter is available on a website called Donation Ethics: Ethicists and Economists for Ethical Donation-Compensation Practices   organi...
Monday, October 5, 2020

How King Uzziah became corrupt and was stricken with Covid and quarantined (II Chronicles 26)

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Chronicles II chapter 26 describes how King Uzziah became corrupt and power hungry, so that the Lord infected him with the untranslatable di...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

Grocery supply chains: TNR reviews "The Secret Life of Groceries"

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 The New Republic reviews  The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket , by Benjamin Lorr,  (It tells you mor...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Convalescent plasma continues to be used for treatment of covid-19, but demand is flat

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  The WSJ has the story: Wanted in Covid-19 Fight: ‘Superdonors’ of Convalescent Plasma--Blood banks and researchers are mobilizing to find ...
Friday, October 2, 2020

Trading truthfulness for efficiency in the Israeli medical internship market, by Ariel Rosenfeld and Avinatan Hassidim

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Too smart for their own good: Trading truthfulness for efficiency in the  Israeli medical internship market, by  Ariel Rosenfeld and Avinat...
Thursday, October 1, 2020

Becky Morton, RIP

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 Becky Morton has passed away after a short illness. She was a pioneer in bringing experimental methods to political science, as an individu...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

A modest proposal for the design of presidential debates

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 1. Turn off the microphone of whoever isn't supposed to be speaking.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Human infection challenge trial(s) for covid-19 vaccine likely to start in UK in January

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  The Financial Times has the story: UK to test vaccines on volunteers deliberately infected with Covid-19--‘Human challenge trials’ intende...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Judicial clerkships in the time of coronavirus--uneven compliance with the pilot hiring plan, and post-clerkship connections

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  An article in the UC Davis Law Review Online discusses  the hiring of law clerks by U.S. judges, during the current pandemic,  with refere...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Removing financial disincentives to living organ donation: HRSA publishes Final Rule

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  The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has published its Final Rule in the Fe...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

The unsharing economy: part time gig evicting people from their apartments

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  Vice.com has the story: Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People--A company called Civvl says evicting people is the ...
Friday, September 25, 2020

The WHO proposal for allocating scarce vaccines: thinking of healthcare while dealing with politics by discussing ethics

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From the Guardian: 'Landmark moment': 156 countries agree to Covid vaccine allocation deal--Covax plan will counter rising threat of...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work in East Java Indonesia, by Cameron, Seager, and Shah

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  Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work Lisa Cameron , Jennifer Seager , Manisha Shah NBER Working Pape...