Monday, November 7, 2022

Stanford Economics Ph.D. Job Market Candidates for the 2022-23 Economics Job Market.

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 22 candidates for the  2022-23 Economics Job Market , from B to Z. Stanford, Department of Economics Job Market Candidates Available Novemb...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

Limiting congestion by limiting applications, or making them costly

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  Here's a paper that investigates two alternatives to limiting congestion in college admissions: one is to limit applications, and the ...
Saturday, November 5, 2022

Liver exchange--a review by Agrawal, Gupta and Saigal

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   Here's a review of liver exchange in the transplant literature, with some comparisons to kidney exchange. Paired exchange Living dono...
Friday, November 4, 2022

NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2022, at Stanford, today and tomorrow

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  While I'm away , the NBER Market Design meeting will convene at Stanford today and tomorrow.  The first paper is presented by Alex Cha...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Hervé Moulin is celebrated in Paris

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  I'm in Paris to speak tomorrow at a ceremony and conference in honor of Hervé Moulin .   A focus of the talks will be Moulin's wor...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Managing inter-district school choice, by Yuchiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima

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 Here's a paper that considers inter-district school choice, motivated by Tokyo day care centers.  I think  a similar problem arises in ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Affirmative action at Harvard and elsewhere, by Roland Fryer

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  As the Supreme Court starts to hear arguments about affirmative action in college admissions, at Harvard and the University of North Carol...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Unraveling of the market for new law professors

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  Kim Krawiec , a law professor who is among the most penetrating analysts of controversial markets and market practices, emails me about un...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

2022 Exeter Prize to Sandro Ambuehl, Douglas Bernheim, and Axel Ockenfels

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 Here's an announcement in an email from the Economic Science Association (ESA): "We are happy to announce the winners of the 2022 ...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

The end of anonymous sperm donation...

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 In  Colorado, a new law ending anonymous sperm donation seeks to catch up with the technological developments involving genetic sequencing ...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Surrogacy during wartime in Ukraine

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  Surrogacy goes on amidst the war in Ukraine. The NYT has the story: How Ukraine’s Surrogate Mothers Have Survived the War. When Russia in...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Helping government workers ask for organ donor registration, by House, Lacetera, Macis, and Mazar

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 Market designers can operate at every level of detail. Here's an experiment on promoting organ donor registration: Nudging the Nudger: ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Kidney exchange collaboration between Stanford and APKD

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 I recently had occasion to review the long collaboration between  my Stanford colleagues and  Mike Rees and the Alliance for Paired Kidney ...