Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Child labor in soccer

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Many laws seek to protect children from being exploited in the labor market, and there is widespread repugnance when it appears that such ex...
Monday, July 8, 2024

Top-trading-cycles for multiple-type housing markets by Di Feng , Bettina Klaus , and Flip Klijn

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  On it's 50th anniversary, top trading cycles (TTC) is still well worth studying. Here's the latest: Characterizing the typewise to...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Mechanism and Institution Design in Budapest, in honor of Vince Crawford's 75th birthday: July 8-12 at Corvinus University

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  Here's the high level program , and here's the detailed program . I plan to speak on Wednesday about Ethical Issues in Market Desi...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

Morals and the limits of markets, WZB Berlin, 11 - 12 July 2024

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  Here's a conference that looks interesting: Morals and the limits of markets , WZB Berlin, 11 - 12 July 2024 Organizers:  Hande Erkut ...
Friday, July 5, 2024

The Morality of Markets, by Mathias Dewatripont and Jean Tirole, in the JPE

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 Are markets moral, immoral, or amoral?  Here's a new entry to that argument. The Morality of Markets , by Mathias Dewatripont and Jean ...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

YingHua He 何 英华 has died.

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  Yan Chen passes on the devastating news that  YingHua He 何 英华  passed away on Tuesday night, after struggling with kidney cancer. May his ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Kidney Exchange in KSA

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  Here's a press release from King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia: KFSHRC Performs Over 5,000 Successful...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

A proposal to assess public opinion in Europe on compensation for organ donors

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  Here's a paper that proposes doing an experiment. Concerning compensation for organ donors. In Europe.  With the hope of influencing p...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Fairness, efficiency and strategy proofness in assigning indivisible objects: two new papers

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 Here are two new papers on the burgeoning literature of matching people to scarce indivisible resources. First, an experiment by Claudia Ce...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Stanford SITE, summer 2024 schedule

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  SITE 2024 Stanford Economics is proud to host its annual Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) conference from July 1 to Sep...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Do Americans Drink Too Much? Politics and science in the debate over guidelines

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  The WSJ has the story:   Do Americans Drink Too Much? Alcohol Is Driving a Debate in Washington . Agencies, lobbyists and lawmakers are fi...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Getting a Federal judicial clerkship, and then clerking

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 If all has gone according to plan, law students who will graduate next June have just matched with a federal clerkship, if they are going ...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Freakonomics interviews John Cawley about celebrity advertisements and repugnance (when the celebrity goes bad)

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  My email this morning included this announcement: " Thank you for sitting down with Freakonomics Radio to discuss your work. The epi...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Feedback (from Trump campaign) on open letter by economists

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  I get asked to sign many letters, and  while I'm generally reluctant to venture beyond my own specific areas of expertise into areas i...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Participating in the Haj through the black market

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 Saudi Arabia is a bit more open to tourism than it used to be, and that may be making it easier for black market operators to bring pilgrim...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Buying exit from Gaza

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 It's hard to leave Gaza. The NYT has the story: When the Only Escape From War in Gaza Is to Buy a Way Out . For many Palestinians, secu...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Black markets for cigarettes in Gaza

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  The WSJ has the story: At $25 Each, Cigarettes Are Turning Gaza Aid Trucks Into Targets   By Stephen Kalin, Dov Lieber and Fatima AbdulKar...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Experimental Economics sessions at Stanford (SITE) this summer

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Here's the preliminary program for this summer's experimental economics at Stanford.  Session 13: Experimental Economics Thu, Aug 22...
Friday, June 21, 2024

How frequently can whole blood safely be donated?

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  Maybe only twice a year for people who don't take iron supplements, according to this recent comment (on a randomized trial in the Net...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Kidney transplants for cats

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 Kidney transplants for cats are a thing, and they all take the form of kidney exchange with a very short chain, in which the lives of two c...