Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Matching Theory and Market Design: conference in Sicily.

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 Here's the preliminary program for the 20th Matching in Practice Workshop   University of Messina, Department of Economics, Aula Magna ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Air cargo: fish and electronics (and flowers and armaments)

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 Haaretz has the story: 120 Tons of Missiles and Salmon: A Rare Trip on Board an Israeli 747 Cargo Plane by Anshel Pfeffer and Avi Scharf ...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Assisted living facilities: U.S. eldercare

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As people live longer, we need to think harder about end-of-life and late-in-life care of all sorts.  The Guardian has the story (much of wh...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Dating sites as matching markets: Bumble reimagined

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The NYT interviews Whitney Wolfe Herd, who co-founded Twitter in 2012, started Bumble in 2014, stepped down as Bumble CEO and is now resumin...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

NSF slashed again

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The "S" in NSF has again attracted the attention of the Trump administration.  The journal Science reports the story:   NSF faces ...
Friday, May 9, 2025

Cacao, cocoa, and coca (Etymology meets botany, agriculture and health)

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Cocoa and cacao and coca?  Which one of these three things is different from the other two? (I'll leave the harder question of milk vers...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Politicians and statistics

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 Statistics and politics go back along way: the word "statistics" apparently comes from "state" as in data about the sta...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC 2025): call for papers

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 Peter Biro writes: The submission deadline for the 10th International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC 2025) has been exte...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Public Lecture on Market Design at Prague Castle, Wednesday, 7 May, 6 p.m

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 I'll be speaking at Prague Castle: here's the official announcement : Science at the Prague Castle: Who Gets What? The New Economic...
Monday, May 5, 2025

A tale of two (military) procurements

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Procurement of custom made goods is hard. Especially when the need is in the future and the requirements are set by successive committees. M...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Air traffic control problems follow layoffs of air traffic control staff

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 I'll be flying later today, so this news item caught my eye about a United flight from SFO to Newark that turned around over Nebraska a...
Saturday, May 3, 2025

Ariel Rubinstein and coffee culture

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 Stanford student Chuer Yang appreciates the great economist Ariel Rubinstein in the Stanford Daily: Cappuccino catalysis   by Chuer Yang ...
Friday, May 2, 2025

How the 1930's looked in 1930, in Haaretz---"Misjudgment of the Nazis"

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 The future is the hardest thing to predict. Here's a recent story in Haaretz, looking back at their reporting from Germany in 1930 (and...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Palliative care involves hard conversations

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 JAMA has a viewpoint by several palliative care physicians reflecting on why they are sometimes "fired" by their patients, i.e. w...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

New/old paper, finally published, sadly still relevant: Kessler & Roth in AEJ:Policy

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 Here's a paper, just published this week, which reports (now among other things) a field-in-the-lab experiment begun in August 2010 (...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members (4 economists: Steve Berry, Parag Pathak, Ed Leamer, and Sergiu Hart)

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 Congratulations to all the new members, and to the four newly elected economists. Of note: One of the economists is unusually young for thi...

Mitch Watt defends his thesis

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  Mitch Watt defends his thesis: Welcome to the club, Mitch.  
Monday, April 28, 2025

Drinking less but paying more

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 Bloomberg has the story: We May Have Already Hit Peak Booze. A habit as old as civilization is fading from our society.  By David Fickling
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Interviews with economists at Social Science Encyclopedia: (Lusardi, Wilson, Krugman, Roth)

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I was recently interviewed by Aiden Singh for his new Social Science Encyclopedia .  Here are several of his interviews.  Annamaria Lusar...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Prolific sperm donation and incest risk in the Netherlands

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 The Guardian has the story: ‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children .  Discovery that clinics have b...