Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Course allocation at Stanford

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  The Stanford Daily has the story: New course enrollment system proposed to decrease stress and increase equity "An alternative enroll...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

"Reviews of Michel Callon’s Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation, In Journal of Cultural Economy

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 Here's a set of brief reactions to Michel Callon 's book Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation. The...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Kidney exchange in Italy and Europe

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  In May, when I spoke at the   Istituto Superiore di Sanità.  I was interviewed by TrendSanita, and that interview has just been published....
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Gambling as a public health issue (Lancet)

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  Here's a warning about gambling from the Lancet: The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling    October 24, 2024 "Executive S...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Dating apps, featuring Hinge (NPR podcast)

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  NPR has a podcast on dating apps. "Unanswered messages. Endless swiping. An opaque algorithm. The backlash to online dating feels lik...
Friday, October 25, 2024

WUSTL Economic Theory Conference 2024, today and tomorrow in St. Louis

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  I'm traveling to St. Louis, to Washington University, to join the WUSTL Economic Theory Conference 2024 Location:  The Charles F. Knig...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

23 Nobel Prize-winning economists call Harris’ economic plan ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s

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  23 Nobel Prize-winning economists call Harris’ economic plan ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s By Phil Mattingly, CNN "More than half of t...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Lanchester Prize (Post 1 of 2)

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  The 2024 INFORMS meetings in Seattle this weekend was the occasion of a number of awards, including the Lanchester Prize, the big publicat...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Stability vs. No Justified Envy, by Romm, Roth and Shorrer

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  Here's a recent paper that clarifies some of the prior literature on comparing stability in two-sided matching with a related kind of ...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Payments for election-related actions

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  Buying votes is illegal, but other election related offers may seem odd but are legal.   The Guardian has the story. ‘There are certain th...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Italy criminalizes surrogacy from abroad

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 Italy has banned its citizens from accessing surrogacy in other countries where it is legal.  It will be interesting to see how they enforc...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Proof of human

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  TheTuring test was to see if computers could pass for humans, but as AI increasingly passes those tests, there may be increasing demands f...
Friday, October 18, 2024

"Market Design and Regulation" at Washington University, Oct 26 (but registration today)

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 I'll be giving a public talk at Wash U in St. Louis on Saturday Oct 26, but here's a call for registration that suggests registrati...

Opioids and transplantable organs

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 Here's a paper that looks at how overdose deaths have joined automobile fatalities as a major source of deceased organ donations. Opioi...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

NBER market design workshop at Stanford, tomorrow and Saturday

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 Tomorrow and Saturday, market design at Stanford... NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2024   DATE October 18-19, 2024 LOCATIO...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

New fellows of the Econometric Society

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Congratulations to the 42 newly elected Fellows of the Econometric Society. That's up from 29 new Fellows elected in 2023, which is a st...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Medical aid in dying comes up for a vote in England

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  The upcoming vote on legalizing medical aid in dying in England and Wales has attracted controversy along lines that will be familiar to r...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Nobel prize in economics to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson

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  " The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nob...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Stable matching in Scientific American

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  Here's a short article in Scientific American, describing the deferred acceptance algorithm and mentioning some uses for stable matchi...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Kim Krawiec interview about WHO demands for national self sufficiency in blood donation and kidney exchange

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  The University of Virginia takes note of the recent Krawiec & Roth paper I blogged about in August . Here is their interview with Kim ...