Sunday, August 7, 2022

Jobs and spouses in Denmark

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  Matching is both consequential and difficult : it is how we sort into jobs and careers, and marriages and families.  Here's a paper th...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

Market design in an historical perspective, by Basshuysen in J. Economic Methodology

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 I pay some attention to how market design is discussed in the history/sociology of science and methodology/history of thought literatures (...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Busing for schools in Boston and NYC, by Angrist, Gray-Lobe, Idoux & Pathak

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 One of the spinoffs of the design of school choice systems in Boston, NYC and elsewhere is that it has opened up the empirical study of sch...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

UNOS hearing in the Senate

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 Yesterday in D.C. ... a tough hearing of the Senate Finance committee.  You can listen to the video now, but it looks like the committee wi...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

UNOS and organ transplant technology

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 Organ transplant  communications and logistics are difficult, and current procedures are clunky. But never attribute to malevolence what ca...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

American Finance Association guidelines to prevent unravelling of the job market

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 Zoom is changing interview practices, and there's concern that academic markets for new Ph.D grads could unravel. The AFA is on the cas...
Monday, August 1, 2022

The Allocation of Food to Food Banks by Canice Prendergast in the JPE

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  The Allocation of Food to Food Banks by Canice Prendergast ,  Journal of Political Economy  130, 8, 1993-2017. Abstract: "Feeding Am...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

No divorce in Missouri while pregnant

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The post-Roe change in the availability of abortions will have many consequences, not all of them obvious.  It may prevent some divorces in ...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Harm reductions (fentanyl test strips) remain illegal in Texas

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It's a long way from Texas to Vancouver . This recent story from the Texas Monthly caught my eye: Fentanyl Test Strips Could Save Lives—...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Fentanyl by prescription: a Vancouver experiment

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 Part of the problem of black markets, particularly for drugs (but not just for drugs) is that customers are dealing with criminals who are ...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

The market for alcoholic drinks in Bangladesh

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Doctors can prescribe alcohol in Bangladesh. The Economist has the story: Bangladesh loosens its booze laws "Consumption of alcohol has...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Drugs, drug regulation, and chemistry: the case of nicotine (following Rob Jackler)

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  My Stanford colleague Dr. Rob Jackler has a longstanding interest in nicotine as an addictive drug that continues to be  effectively marke...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

The (local) labor markets for terrorists and drug traffickers

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  It's so hard to hire good help nowadays, but two papers in the latest Econometrica give us some insight into how that problem is solv...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Efficient school choice when schools are not players: Phil Reny in the AER

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  In some school choice systems, such as in New York City, the schools (represented e.g. by the school principals) as well as the students a...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

School choice in Amsterdam: a counterfactual analysis

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  Forthcoming in the JPE ( It looks like the refereeing process worked its magic on this paper, whose first version was distributed in 2015....