Monday, August 15, 2022

U. Chicago celebrates Michael Kremer

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  Theory in practice--Nobel laureate Michael Kremer is building up development economics at UChicago .  By Lucas McGranahan, The University ...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

More on UNOS in the hot seat and calls for reform of the U.S. deceased donor transplant system

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 Here's another report about the recent Senate Finance Committee hearing about UNOS, which includes a redacted version of the U.S. Digit...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

MATCH-UP 2022, August 24-26, 2022, TU Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  MATCH-UP 2022, August 24-26, 2022, TU Vienna, Vienna, Austria registration for the workshop is only possible until August 16, 23:59 CET: h...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Are sociology and economics coming closer together? Philippe Steiner in Acta Oeconomica

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 Professor Philippe Steiner , of the Groupe d’Etudes des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne, thinks that these days sociology...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

MEDIEVAL MATCHING MARKETS by Lars Boerner and Daniel Quint

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 As I'll explain below, here's a long-awaited paper that fully qualifies for that description: MEDIEVAL MATCHING MARKETS by Lars Bo...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Pharmacy Benefit Managers--Alex Chan on NPR's Planet Money podcast

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  Alex Chan is interviewed on the role of pharmacy benefit managers, their role in drug pricing, and some problems with the market design. ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Do repugnant markets corrupt society? Kim Krawiec calls for evidence...

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 Kim Krawiec , who studies taboo trades from a legal perspective, thinks that people who claim that repugnant transactions undermine society...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Renewal: "My donor wanted to give me her kidney — and get home in time for Shabbat"

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  When reporter Stewart Ain needed a kidney transplant, he contacted Renewal . He explains the process that led to him being matched to an a...
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...