Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Sorority rush: the paper and the podcast

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  Years ago, my late student Sue Mongell and I wrote a paper about sorority rush: Mongell, Susan, and Alvin E. Roth. " Sorority rush a...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Ambivalence on recreational cannabis in Amsterdam

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  The Guardian has the story: Amsterdam considers banning ‘cannabis tourists’ from its coffee shops. Fed up with stoned visitors and worried...
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Public Lecture at Iowa State (video): "Who Gets What and Why? Economists as Engineers."

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  Iowa State University in Ames Iowa has made available a video of a public lecture I gave there on September 22, called " Who Gets Wha...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Black markets in abortion pills

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 Americans differ in their opinions about whether American women have a right to end a pregnancy, or whether state legislators have the righ...
Friday, October 7, 2022

This Supreme Court term has many cases on repugnant transactions and controversial markets

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 The newly conservative-dominated Supreme Court is ready for its second term, and has a docket full of what readers of this blog know I thin...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Gay couples, surrogacy, IVF and health insurance

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  The Guardian has a story about the obstacles consulting a married gay couple in New York. They have an ongoing lawsuit regarding discrimin...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Open letters--democracy and academic freedom, in Iran and Turkey

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 Around this time of year I think of the various open letters I sign, from among many that I'm invited to sign.  (I try to avoid signing...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Machine learning plays the ultimatum game via sentence completion by Large Language Models

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 One currently growing class of artificial intelligence, machine learning models are Large Language Models, which are trained on potentially...
Monday, October 3, 2022

Choosing (as if) from a menu (by Gonczarowski, Heffetz and Thomas; and by Bó, and Hakimov)

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What makes serial dictatorship so obviously strategy proof is that it gives each participant the opportunity to choose from a menu, and get ...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Return to previous school assignment policies (in some respects) under New York City's new mayor

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 In NYC, the pendulum is still swinging between inclusive admissions as measured by demographics and determined by lottery, and meritocratic...
Saturday, October 1, 2022

Your digital trail, in cyberspace and in public spaces

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 Here are two recent privacy-related stories about how the digital trails we leave can be combined in surprising ways. From the NYT a story ...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Dating and (or versus) the search for lasting relationships

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 Two related  stories caught my eye this week. One lamented the difficulty of making a meaningful match through online dating, and thought a...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

What is needed to gain support for effective algorithms in hiring, etc?

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 Here's an experiment motivated in part by European regulations on transparency of algorithms. Aversion to Hiring Algorithms: Transparen...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Spain's stolen babies (from the NY Times)

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The sale of babies is widely regarded as repugnant, but it has been used for political purposes in the dark days of Spain, and Argentina.  H...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Where do professors come from?

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  A news article in Nature summarizes two research articles into the makeup of the American professoriate.  Professors tend to have gotten t...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Job swaps in the Air Force

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  Here's the story, from Air and Space Forces Magazine: Bass Announces Changes to Assignment Policies—Including Job Swaps Sept. 21, 202...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

Dismantling kleptocracy

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 USAID has published a guide to combating kleptocracy--i.e. government by thieves. DEKLEPTIFICATION GUIDE . Seizing Windows of Opportunity t...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Improving refugee resettlement: insights from market design by Justin Hadad and Alexander Teytelboym

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 The Autumn 2022 issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy is about forced migration.  Here's a paper directly related to market des...