Monday, June 17, 2024

Kurt Sweat and Vincent Jappah graduate

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  Kurt Sweat is a new PhD economist (and if you look closely you can barely make out how expertly his doctoral hood was given and received)....
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Internal Talent Markets, by Cowgill, Davis , Montagnes, and Perkowski

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 Here's a paper that deals with the tradeoff between centralized assignment and market-like mechanisms for job assignment within a firm,...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance, by Robert Stüber

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 Here's a nice experiment in the EJ: Robert Stüber, Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance: a Framed Field Experiment , The Economic Journ...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Repugnance doesn't establish standing in court: Supreme Court reverses Kacsmaryk on medical abortion

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  Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that (for the time being at least) the medical abortion pill  mifepristone should remain le...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Do e-cigarettes lead to combustables? (Two NBER papers).

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  Two NBER working papers on flavor bans for e-cigarettes, and possible migration to combustables: The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Nicotine is hard to ban: Juul wins a reprieve from the FDA, and illegal vapes flood the market

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 Here are two stories by Jennifer Maloney at the WSJ: FDA Rescinds Juul Ban, Opening Door for Federal Clearance. E-cigarette maker’s product...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Frans de Waal (1948-2024)

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  The eminent primatologist Frans de Waal has passed away. Here's a memoriam from Emory University: Emory primatologist Frans de Waal re...
Monday, June 10, 2024

INFORMS Section on Auctions and Market Design (AMD)

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  Itai Ashlagi  and Vahideh Manshadi write: "Dear colleague s:   We are writing to provide updates about the ongoing activities of...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Recent kidney transplant papers

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 Here are two new papers on kidney exchange that caught my eye, and one on incentivizing deceased donation by prioritizing registered donors...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

The ethics of field experiments in Economics, in the Financial Times

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  The Financial Times has a column about the recent twitter (X) discussion concerning our paper  Social Media and Job Market Success: A Fiel...
Friday, June 7, 2024

Workshop in Honor of Elizabeth Hoffman, today at University of Iowa

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Betsy Hoffman is celebrated in Iowa today. Workshop in Honor of Elizabeth Hoffman Sponsored by the Clarence Tow Fund. Organizers: Yan Chen,...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Medical aid in dying debated in NY, extended in the Netherlands

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 Here are two related stories, one from the NYT about a debate on whether to allow medical aid in dying in New York State. The other is from...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Paying college athletes before it was legal

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 Yesterday I blogged about the new NCAA rules on allowing college athletes to be paid:  The ban on paying college athletes is history It wil...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

The ban on paying college athletes is history

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  The idea that paying college athletes is wrong has given way to the realities of the sports markets in which they perform.  For many years...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Kidney exchange between Israel and the Czech Republic

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 The Jerusalem Post reports another kidney exchange between Israel and the Czech Republic: Miraculous kidney donation between friends spans ...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Kidney Exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean

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 Kidney exchange isn't yet thriving in Latin America, but the basic infrastructure is in place. It would make a lot of sense to jumpstar...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

The Path to a Match for Interventional Cardiology Fellowships

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The  Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions  has started a fellowship match, and here's an article describing the fa...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Organs, tissues, and medical devices are regulated very differently

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 Here's an article in JAMA by a Michigan doctor and his Congresswoman, on the lack of regulation for some substances of human origin. Ur...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Sigecom Test of Time Award 2024 for AdWords and generalized online matching by Mehta, Saberi, Vazirani, and Vazirani

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 The SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers published between ten and twen...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Marijuana policy and use in the U.S., 1979-2022, by Jonathan Caulkins, in Addiction

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 Here's a paper forthcoming in the journal Addiction: Changes in self-reported cannabis use in the United States from 1979 to 2022 , by ...