Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Interfaith marriage under attack in India--"love jihad"

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 The Washington Post has the story: It was never easy being an interfaith couple in India. Now some states are making it harder " Marry...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Officer assignment in the U.S. Army

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In a recent post I discussed the NAS report on the military labor force, focusing on the new Talent Marketplaces, and some of the difficul...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

The international scope of kidney disease

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  During the Covid-19 pandemic we've all become aware of the importance of public messaging--about wearing masks and other behaviors tha...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Marijuana in the House (but not yet in the Senate)

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  The NY Times has the story: House Passes Landmark Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana   By Catie Edmondson, Dec. 4, 2020 "The House passed...
Friday, December 4, 2020

The black market for endangered birds

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Laws that ban markets are sometimes the blueprints for the black markets that arise in the place of legal markets. That turns out to be the ...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Unraveling of neurology fellowships

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  From the journal Neurology : Current controversies in neurology subspecialty education: Insight from clinical neurophysiology   by Heidi M...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Chinese college admissions reform: some consequences, by Yan Chen, Ming Jiang and Onur Kesten in PNAS

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  An empirical evaluation of Chinese college admissions reforms through a natural experiment by Yan Chen, Ming Jiang, and Onur Kesten PNAS ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

The labor market that is the military: a report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

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  I recently served as a member of a National Academies committee on the issues facing the Air Force in managing its human capital, i.e. its...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Philippe Steiner on matching and romance, and transplants

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  The French economic sociologist Philippe Steiner, who studies (among other things) how markets and gift giving can coexist, has a short p...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Market design in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, by Philippe van Basshuysen

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Philippe van Baßhuysen  has an article now online in the journal  Philosophy of the Social Sciences , focusing on market design, and taking...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Convalescent plasma for Covid-19 may not be as effective as hoped

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 Here's a recent article from the New England Journal of Medicine: they conclude that treatment of Covid-19 patients with convalescent p...
Friday, November 27, 2020

Market Design Job Market Candidates in Econ and Computer Science (or a combination of the two) from SIGecom Exchanges

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  Assaf Romm writes: " The editors of SIGecom Exchanges were kind enough to host on their November issue a list that I compiled conta...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

Madhav Raghavan on transparency (and on the European job market)

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Madhav Raghavan is completing a postdoc at the University of Lausanne this year (working with Bettina Klaus), and is on the job market, pri...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Bob Wilson and Paul Milgrom, interviewed about their work

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  Stanford News has the story: The bid picture: Stanford economists explain the ideas behind their 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sci...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Paying for plasma to be legal in Alberta

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  Reason magazine has the story: Canada Inches Closer to Allowing More People To Be Paid for Plasma-- For too long, our northern neighbors h...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Colin Sullivan on organ transplant policy (and on the job market this year)

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  Colin Sullivan is completing a two-year postdoc at Stanford this year, and is on the job market. His job market paper is an experiment wit...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Akhil Vohra on unravelling (and on the job market this year)

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Akhil Vohra , who will be finishing his Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford this year, has been thinking about unraveling for a long time.  His j...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Price gouging during the pandemic: NY law revised and enforced

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 Here's the press release from the office of the Attorney General of New York: Attorney General James Stops Three Amazon Sellers from Pr...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Adventures in transplant transport

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 Speedy transport of transplantable organs is an important part of transplantation.  Sometimes the logistics are more exciting than you woul...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Pandemic inspired changes in the economy that may last--real estate and medicine

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  In academia, Zoom seminars may coexist with in-person seminars long after the pandemic has ended. They aren't as nice as in-person sem...