Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Experiments and market design, video (I'm interviewed by Chiara Spina from INSEAD)

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Professor Chiara Spina interviewed me about the use of experiments in market design (20 minute video). (We spoke about a number of experime...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Comstockery and abortifacients, on the way to the Supreme Court

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 The Comstock Act of 1873 made it a Federal crime to distribute information or medicines for contraception or abortion, and more generally o...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Alcoholic beverage distributors

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  The FCC investigates and regulates not just the industries we all know about, but also industries that quietly do a lot of the heavy lifti...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Markets in human milk, placenta, and feces

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I've blogged earlier about markets for breast milk, but here is an article that considers them also in connection with placenta and fece...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Surrogacy in Spain is hard to suppress

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  In a widely reported story, a Spanish celebrity has become the surrogate mother of her grandchild, with the help of sperm from her decease...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Introductory workshops to the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design semester at Berkeley MSRI

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  The semester of  Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design August 21, 2023 to December 20, 2023 at Berkeley will le...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Surrogacy under siege in Italy

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 Opposition to surrogacy in Italy has taken aim at the babies of same sex couples. The NYT has the story: Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Iss...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

The Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture for 2023 at BU, by Parag Pathak

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 Parag Pathak gave this year's Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture at Boston University. The title of his talk is “Still Worth the Trip? ...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Test of Time Award 2023 to Immorlica & Mahdian, and Ashlagi, Kanoria & Leshno

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 Matching theory is recognized this year for bringing theory and observation into harmony... The SigEcom Test of Time Award for 2023 , ...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Blue water, green water and climate change

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 Much of the discussion of redesigning the markets for water focus on "blue water," i.e. surface water in rivers and lakes, and ru...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Headlines that could have appeared on April 1

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 Grim news largely crowded out funny news this past 12 months, but not completely (and some grim news is also funny). National Park Service ...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Opioids and Appalachia by Sally Satel

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  Sally Satel , who has treated patients in Appalachia, writes movingly of the drug addiction problem there. Here's a paragraph that set...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Deceased-donor transplants: UNOS in the crosshairs

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  There is unprecedented political will aiming towards reform of the system by which organs for transplant are recovered from deceased donor...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Pay transparency, horizontally, vertically, and across firms, by Zoe Cullen

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 Information architecture is an important part of market design. Here's a nuanced review of pay transparency by Zoe Cullen, dealing with...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Bride price in China

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  The NY Times has the story: In China, Marriage Rates Are Down and ‘Bride Prices’ Are Up . China’s one-child policy has led to too few wome...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Alex Chan

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  Congratulations, Alex. Alex Chan @alex8chan · Mar 24 I will join @HarvardHBS as an Assistant Professor next academic year! to the sacrif...