Monday, August 5, 2024

Theory brunch at Stanford

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  A Sunday brunch to welcome Fuhito Kojima back for a summer visit brought together an eclectic group of Stanford theorists, past, present, ...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Remembering Jim Simons

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  Here's the memorial page from the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Remembering Jim Simons HT: Vijay Vazirani ########### E...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Goldin arm

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  Here's a great post-Nobel story from the Harvard Gazette. Time to send in Goldin. Sox go with Nobel laureate southpaw to throw out fir...
Friday, August 2, 2024

Barter of Russians in prison for prisoners in Russia--Redemption of Captives

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  Barter is alive and well in diplomacy, as evidenced by yesterday's multi-country multi-party prisoner swap.  Among the highlights was ...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Time banking

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  Here's the latest Freakonomics podcast, on time banking. Dubner interviews some proponents, and a skeptic. I was the skeptic. It's...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Crowding in School Choice, By William Phan, Ryan Tierney, and Yu Zhou

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  Here's an innovative paper in the latest AER. The authors use North Carolina's Wake County Public School System as a motivating ex...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Danny Kahneman, remembered by Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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 Daniel Kahneman, 1934-2024: Nobel Prize Winner & CASBS Legend "Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel laureate, professor emeritus of psycholo...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Nobel prize medals at auction---two for chemistry (1996 and 1966)

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 For charity, to clean up estates of the departed, and for other reasons, Nobel prize medals are sometimes sold at auction.  Here are two re...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Chicago celebrates Phil Reny

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Economic Theory Conference Honoring Phil Reny , organized by  Benjamin Brooks , Vasiliki Skreta and Kai Hao Yang "The Becker Friedman ...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

An Experimental Study of the Chinese Organ Allocation System

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 China presently has a low rate of organ donations per million population, so there's a lot of room for growth.  Here's a study sugg...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Performance Feedback and Organ Donor Registrations, by House, Lacetera, Macis, and Mazar.

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 When you register for a driver's license in the U.S., you fill out a form that has an opportunity to register as an organ donor. Did th...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Knights and Knaves reimagined by Jacob Glazer and Ariel Rubinstein

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 Knights and Knaves are a venerable class of logical puzzles in which knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and the task is t...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

The End Kidneys Death Act has growing support

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I've earlier blogged about the  Coalition to Modify NOTA (the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984) . Here is a summary of their propos...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Redesigning academia

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  Here's an article that presents for discussion possible market design changes in academic earth sciences.  Some of them don't appl...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Don't take "No" for an answer in deceased organ donor registration (a paper forthcoming after ten+ years)

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 Here's a paper reporting a "field in the lab" experiment with actual organ donor registrations, that took over ten years to g...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Signaling for medical residencies: the first few years

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Two papers report on signaling in Otolaryngology and Orthopaedic surgery.  The Otolaryngology societies have a summary of the current state ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Black markets in everything bagels (in S. Korea)

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 South Korea is not a hub of everything bagels, it turns out. In fact they are banned. The NYT has the story: Why Everything Bagel Seasoning...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Congratulations to ESA Fellows

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  The Economic Science Association (ESA) has decided that the stock of old experimenters is sufficient to start naming fellows.  (I heard of...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Kidney exchange in Germany: draft of a proposed law

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  Yesterday the German Federal Cabinet published the draft of a law that would allow kidney exchange in Germany. Below is the text of the pr...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Becoming a matchmaker

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  The company built around the marriage pact is now offering matchmaking tools to the public: Matchbox . "Matchbox is the matching al...