Sunday, March 15, 2026

Congestion in signing your kid up for summer camp

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 The WSJ has the story: Welcome to the ‘Hunger Games’ of Parenting: Summer Camp Sign-Up Parents set up command centers and practice checking...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

How safe is plasma donation?

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 Here's a story from the NYT, about the recent regularization of paid plasma donation in (some provinces of) Canada. How Safe Is Plasma ...
Friday, March 13, 2026

My academic career to date, in two word clouds (covering 1974-1999 and 2000-2025)

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 Here's a website that will make a word cloud based on your Google Scholar page: Scholar Goggler .  I used it to create a kind of data-g...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Citizen historians, preserving records before they are censored (shades of 1984)

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 Citizen historians are documenting history as displayed e.g. in signs at national museums and monuments, as those are censored, so that the...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Exodus from NIH

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 MedpageToday has the story: The People — and Research — Lost in the NIH Exodus   by Rachana Pradhan and Katheryn Houghton, KFF Health News ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Fuhito Kojima wins the R. K. Cho Economics Prize from Yonsei University

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 Here's the announcement: R. K. Cho Economics Prize   "The   R. K. Cho Economics Prize 2026   will be   awarded to Professor   Fuhi...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Kidney exchange developments in India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Germany

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 Here are recent reports on kidney exchange from  India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Germany.  Atul Agnihotri:  SOMETHING REMARKABLE IS HAPPENI...
Sunday, March 8, 2026

Big drop in international students coming to US (particularly from India)

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  The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story: The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought   By Karin Fischer       ...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Work from home increases fertility

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  Here's a recent paper showing that work from home (WFH) increases fertility, expecially if both couples work from home.  The proposed ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Medical training becomes less desirable in abortion-restricting states

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 Here's a new study of applications to medical residency programs, suggesting that medical training has become less desirable in states ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

A philosopher interviews economists about rational choice

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A hardcover copy of this book of interviews (of economists, by a philosopher) arrived in my mail the other day, and I'm enjoying it. It...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Nick Bloom discusses work from home

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  Econ To Go is a Stanford series in which Neale Mahoney , the director of SIEPR, interviews an economist. In this one he interviews the in...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Summer school in Economic Theory in Jerusalem (28 June- 7 July 2026)

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 The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is once again planning its long-running summer school in ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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  Here's the announcement from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences*: Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize   “To truly u...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

An anti-facist open letter from 23 retired Harvard Business School professors

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Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum.  Elections need to be defended.  Here's an open letter fr...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Ed Peskowitz (1944-2026)

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 After an eventful life, with major accomplishments in business and philanthropy, Ed Peskowitz succumbed to kidney failure this week.  I met...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Privacy vs. security: doorbell cameras (and Ring's Superbowl ad)

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There's a tension between privacy (some of it constitutionally protected)  and security, involving everything from street crime to terro...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Kidney exchange in India (one minute video)

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In India, which already does the third most kidney transplants in the world (after the US and China), physicians and surgeons are making gre...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

50th Anniversary of Mathematics of Operations Research (and 50 papers, one for each year)

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  MOR is a journal that published its first issue only two years after I finished my Ph.D., and Bob Aumann was the first editor of its Game ...