Thursday, November 26, 2009

The market for fresh turkeys

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Frozen turkeys can be produced year round, but fresh turkeys for Thanksgiving all need to be brought to maturity at around the same time. T...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Two edited volumes

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Two edited volumes recently arrived in the mail: Better Living through Economics , edited by John Siegfried; and Studies of Labor Market Int...

Early and late matching to career choices

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A recent NBER paper by Ofer Malamud finds that students (in Scotland) who get to choose their academic specialty later in their educational ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Designing a course grading system

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Noam Nisan at Algorithmic Game Theory tells a funny story about grades for a game theory class. (Don't try this for other subjects...)
Monday, November 23, 2009

Worldwide university rankings, compared to GNP

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Rankings have lots of problems, but here is an ambitious attempt to look at universities all around the world. "The Academic Ranking of...
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Final remarks in our market design class

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Harvard's new academic calendar and Thanksgiving combined to produce an early end to the lecture part of our Market Design class. I ende...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Who gets deceased-donor kidneys? Thinking about changes in the rules.

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A lot of thought and politics goes into changing the rules for which patients get which kidneys, how long they wait, and how much that shoul...
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Incentives for buying health insurance when healthy

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My colleague Marty Feldstein worries in the Washington Post about potential incentive mis-alignments in new health care legislation: Obamaca...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Restaurant reservations

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An interesting paper by Alexei Alexandrov and Martin A. Lariviere asks Are Reservations Recommended? From the abstract: "We examine th...

Misc. repugnant transactions

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Environmentalists seek to wipe out plush toilet paper (headline in Boston Globe) They advocate products made of recycled fibers "And, ...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Harvard housing

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Harvard sophomores, juniors and seniors are assigned housing randomly, with some details that require strategic thinking. The objective see...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Non-simultaneous kidney exchange chains

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Quite a few kidney exchange chains, starting with a non-directed (altruistic) donor, have been done non-simultaneously , since the first non...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Gaming the Liver Transplant Market (by Jason Snyder)

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When my colleagues and I began talking to transplant surgeons about the design of kidney exchanges, it was initially sometimes hard to convi...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Louis Menand on the market for PhDs in English

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Louis Menand, in Harvard Magazine, has many interesting things to say about the Ph.D. in English literature and the market for Ph.D.s in Eng...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Humanities job market: priming the pump

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The American Council of Learned Societies has decided to give the job market for humanities Ph.D.s a boost, in the face of the tough job mar...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Market for lesson plans

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College professors sell textbooks, business school professor can profit from case studies, and now there's a market for lesson plans for...

Signaling for interviews in the Economics Job Market: Registration opens tomorrow

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Here is the American Economic Association's announcement of the 2009 mechanism for Signaling for Interviews in the Economics Job Market ...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Nothing human need be foreign to economics

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Economists like to think of Economics as a broad church that welcomes investigation of a wide range of human activity from many viewpoints. ...
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A grave problem of supply and demand

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Grave sites, once sold and occupied, are intended to be occupied for a very long time, and their sale can't easily be negotiated if more...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

School choice, and separation of church and state

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As a beneficiary of both a democratic and a religious tradition, I think that separation of church and state is good not just for states (if...
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