Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Online dating in the US--is it past peak?

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 Here's a 2022 survey I just came across from Pew Research. It caught my eye because it reports a much lower percentage of life partners...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Guido Imbens reflects on "What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize?

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  What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize?  "Stanford physical chemist W.E. Moerner, who received the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry, and St...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Grace Guan defends her dissertation at Stanford

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 Grace Guan defended her Ph.D. dissertation this past Friday. Welcome to the club, Grace.       Here's my earlier post about one of the...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

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Iconoclastic scientists not only do novel science, but they do science in novel ways. Jane Goodall also communicated to a broad audience, an...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

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A tale of bureaucracy, in two acts  1.  NLDAC, the federally funded National Living Donor Assistance Center , was for a long time the only ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Trading cycles for board games

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 Trading cycles, often without the use of money, crop up here and there.  Here's an instance that was recently pointed out to me on Blue...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In-game sports betting is something different

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 The NYT has the story: The Seductive, and Risky, Power of Live Sports Betting In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Repugnance and consequence-insensitivity (in connection to opposition to genetically-engineered food)

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 There is a well developed literature on repugnance connected to food, and here is a recent, interesting example that focuses on the relatio...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Remote work and reproduction

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 Here's a recent paper indicating that work from home (WFH) may increase fertility, particularly when both partners in a household work ...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

The effect of biological nudges may (also) have been overstated

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 There have been a number of recent studies suggesting that the effectiveness of psychological "nudges" may have been substantiall...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Citation laureates in Economics: Autor & Katz, Bertrand & Mullainathan, and Bloom

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  Clarivate , the company that now maintains the Web of Science /Science Citation index, annually nominates very well cited economists (and ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Recommendations From the International Society of Uterus Transplantation Ethics Committee

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 The arc of history turns towards technology. I didn't expect recommendation #2, although I've heard it discussed.  Evolving Ethical...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Transplants and trust

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Much of medicine's effectiveness depends on trust, and that is nowhere clearer than in organ transplantation, which depends on organ don...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The Downside of Fertility by Claudia Goldin---Dads versus duds

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 Here's the latest from Claudia Goldin, on dads versus duds.   The Downside of Fertility   by Claudia Goldin, NBER Working Paper 34268, ...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Science and politics: Can you fix science by doing much less of it?

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 Today's NYT has a long opinion piece about (my former Stanford colleague) Jay  Bhattacharya in his role as the new head of the National...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

The 2025 Golden Goose awards

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 In these difficult times for science funding, the Golden Goose Award is a reminder of its benefits.  Here's it's backstory .  Here...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2025, October 17-18, 2025, Cambridge, MA

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  NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2025,  October 17-18, 2025, Cambridge, MA ORGANIZERS Eric Budish, Michael Ostrovsky, and Pa...