Sunday, April 4, 2021

Marijuana bans continue to fall: NY and New Mexico, with more to come

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 The Washington Post has the story: New Mexico set to legalize marijuana as New York ends its pot prohibition    By Katie Shepherd "Cap...
Saturday, April 3, 2021

Reforming organ transplant regulation: create an Office of Organ Policy (Roth and Segal in STAT)

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  Here's an opinion piece published yesterday in STAT, which applauds  some recent changes in transplant regulations, and suggests some ...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Sixth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) , May 24-27, 2021 (Abstract submission deadline this Sunday)

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 Here's a conference announcement and looming submission deadline: Sixth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) The conference will be vi...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Headlines that could have appeared April 1

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  You can't make these things up: Murderer who tackled London Bridge attacker with narwhal tusk pardoned Wild Mountain Thyme trailer bla...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

US Renal Data System 2020 Annual Data Report

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  Here's the USRDS Annual Data Report for 2020 . Volume 2 concerns End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Incidence, Prevalence, Patient Charact...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Postmortems on the Texas electricity market failure

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  The weather related failures of the Texas electricity market have prompted a number of fairly rapid postmortems (if that's the right w...
Monday, March 29, 2021

The market for radiation oncologists

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 Dr.  Wes Talcott at Yale points me to some contemporary discussion of the labor force in radiation oncology.  As with a number of other me...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Discovering Auctions: Contributions of Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson by Teytelboym, Li, Kominars, Akbarpour and Dworczak

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  Here's a celebratory account of the Nobel winning work of Milgrom and Wilson. The authors have used the new AEA symbol for random orde...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Kim Krawiec to UVA

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 Controversial markets are coming to Virginia: Here's the announcement from the U. of Virginia: Kimberly Krawiec, Expert in Controversia...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Ethical payment for research participation

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  Discussions of ethical questions turn out to have less math or data than other discussions, but more, well, discussion...  Here's our ...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Debating deaccessioning

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 The museum world is divided about deaccessioning--i.e. selling art to finance things other than the purchase of more art, such as museum op...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Negotiating climate change, by Schmidt and Ockenfels in PNAS

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  Now that there's light at the end of the Covid tunnel, we can turn our attention back to big problems: Focusing climate negotiations o...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

College admissions, exam optional

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 The WSJ has a report focusing on post-covid, exam optional college admissions: College Admission Season Is Crazier Than Ever. That Could Ch...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Elite public schools move away from exams

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  Covid cancelled exams for many exam schools: will they stay exam free in the future?  Several cities are moving in that direction. Here...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Same sex marriage in Japan takes a step forward

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In The U.S., court decisions paved the way for same sex marriage.  Now there's a court decision in Japan. The NY Times has the story: La...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Match Day 2021 for medical residents

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  Yesterday was Match Day, during Covid Year, and the aggregate data are reassuring that virtual (instead of in-person) interviews left the ...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Matching theorist wins high school science talent search

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 Yunseo Choi will attend Harvard next year, planning to study math and econ (see video below). Teen Scientists Win $1.8 Million at Virtual R...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Data use agreements, and university research policies regarding restrictions on publication

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  Since the beginning of the year, I've been sent several Data Use Agreements from organizations interested in the possibility of sharin...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Bob Wilson's Nobel lecture, in Econometrica

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Here is Bob Wilson, in a very low key account of (what I would have described as) how he saw the future, changed economics, mobilized a gene...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

A call for capping residency interviews

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  One clear symptom that the marketplace for medical residents is in crisis is the persistent drumbeat of suggestions for how to modify it. ...