Monday, August 16, 2021

Alain Enthoven on fragmented American health care

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 Writing in Health Affairs, Alain Enthoven notes that most American workers insured through their jobs work for self-insured employers, i.e....
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Fair algorithms for selecting citizen assemblies, in Nature

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  Here's a paper that grapples with the problem that not every group in society is equally likely to accept an appointment for which the...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

A lottery for antibody treatment, with slots reserved for vulnerable patients

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  It's always good to see a collaboration between physicians and economists on allocating scarce resources, and here's a case report...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Generalizing deferred acceptance in many to one matching with contracts, by Hatfield, Kominers and Westkamp in RESTUD

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  Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms , by John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexander Westkamp, The Re...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Guns and public health: research funds available again

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  Here's the story, from the Journal of the American Medical Association: Gun Violence Researchers Are Making Up for 20 Years of Lost Ti...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Stanford SITE seminar: Experimental Economics, August 12-13

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  SITE 2021 PROGRAM Session 5: Experimental Economics Date Thursday, August 12, 2021, 9am  -  Friday, August 13, 2021, 1pm Location Zoom ORG...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

The export market for fighter planes

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  Here's an article from a recent issue of Foreign Affairs, about why China's export market for fighter jets is not taking off, even...
Monday, August 9, 2021

Criminalizing the clients of sex work makes the client population riskier to sex workers (study in the UK)

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 Here's a  recent study that suggests that criminalizing the clients of prostitutes results in the client population becoming more risky...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

Stanford SITE Seminar: Psychology and Economics, Aug 9-10

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  Session 4: Psychology and Economics Date Monday, August 9, 2021, 9am  -  Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 12:30pm ORGANIZED BY B. Douglas Bernhei...