Monday, February 14, 2022

Building capacity in science

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 Here's a post from Nature about some of the projects highlighted by the recent Einstein Foundation awards for promoting quality in rese...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

The future pandemic that has already started making an appearance

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I never expected the Covid pandemic: I was expecting a different one, coming not from a virus but from an antibiotic-resistant bacteria.  Th...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

First kidney exchange in Brazil

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 A first kidney exchange in Brazil, at Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, is ...
Friday, February 11, 2022

A Lloyd Shapley tribute, by his niece Deborah Shapley

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 Lloyd's niece, Deborah Shapley, is a Washington DC based science writer and activist.  She is developing a website of material about he...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Access and transparency in transplantation at the TTS 2022 meeting in September

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  Covid-permitting, I'll be flying to Buenos Aires in September to participate in person in the 2022 international meeting of The Transp...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Stability in Matching Markets with Complex Constraints by H. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, and A. Teytelboym

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 Here's a paper motivated in part by the issues that arise in matching refugee families to localities in which to settle (once they have...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Is applying to college too hard?

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 While there are concerns that electronic application services like the common app have led to an explosion of applications, there are also ...
Monday, February 7, 2022

Market design at the Econometric Society summer school in Dynamic Structural Econometrics

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 Here's an announcement that came by email from the Econometric Society (which reflects the continued evolution of market design): ECONO...
Sunday, February 6, 2022

Interview on market design (in Polish)

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I was interviewed by Sebastian Stodolak about market design and repugnance, in the Polish journal https://www.dziennik.pl/tagi/alvin-e-roth ...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

The black market in looted antiquities

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  The market for ancient art has a dark underside, that involves not just the usual shady characters we expect to encounter in black markets...
Friday, February 4, 2022

Kim Krawiec interviews me about repugnance on her podcast Taboo Trades

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 Kim Krawiec interviews me on her podcast Taboo Trades : She writes "Al Roth and I discuss hitmen, drugs, kidneys, paid sex, and other ...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

The market for hitmen

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Why are laws against hitmen more effective in most of the world than laws against drug dealers?  Yesterday's post was about a paper tha...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Forbidden Transactions and Black Markets

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 Here's a paper that was just published early online. (Only now do I see that I left out the middle initial I always use, but I'm on...