Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Polygamy in Malaysia

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Malaysian Polygamy Club Draws Criticism "“Men are by nature polygamous,” said Dr. Rohaya, Mr. Ikram’s third wife, flanked by the other ...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Academic job market in a recession year

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Inside Higher Ed has an article on the downturn in number of positions advertised through the Modern Language Association, the American Hist...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Spam newspaper

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One of the odder features of the internet ad economy is that it is apparently profitable to create internet sites that draw some search traf...

Recruitment of male high school athletes by ... girls

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Inside Higher Ed reports : "A string of scandals involving alcohol, sex and male high school sports stars -- and the National Collegiat...
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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Matching and Market Design at the ASSA meetings in Atlanta

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I'm not at the meetings in Atlanta, but if I were, I'd try to catch this session this morning: Matching and Market Design Presiding:...

Market for class notes, posted by students

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There are lots of sites that sell study aids to college students, and there are lots of college courses whose notes are posted online (e.g. ...
Friday, January 1, 2010

It turns out I'm a Business professor

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The same lecture can be described in subtly different ways to different audiences. I see this a lot, because I have a joint appointment betw...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

The year in market design

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Kidney exchange : In fits and starts, kidney exchange is picking up. The biggest development this year has followed from Mike Rees' pion...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Airport security and privacy

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Recent discussions of airport security in the post underpants-bomber era make it clear that privacy is a complex issue. For example, if an a...

Dan McFadden salutes Hurwicz and Laffont

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Daniel McFadden, The human side of mechanism design: a tribute to Leo Hurwicz and Jean-Jacque Laffont , Rev. Econ. Design (2009) 13:77–100 (...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Scalping free ice skating at Fenway

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The mayor is shocked, the Globe reports Scalpers cloud free skating at Fenway: City protests as rink tickets are hawked at high prices ...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Hiring in a recession: sorting through 500 applications for an entry level job

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The NY Times has a story with some illuminating comments about how a trucking company handled the problem of sorting through 500 application...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

What is the capacity of a school?

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A recent NY Times article describes the unusual way in which charter schools are welcomed by the city, and share space in public school buil...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

NSF survey of earned doctorates

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The NSF reports on doctoral degrees granted by American universities: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics....
Friday, December 25, 2009

Give cash next year?

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Tim Harford, writing about Joel Waldfogel's famous work on the "deadweight loss" of Christmas gifts, writes "What to do? ...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Mexico City Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

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Here's the story: Mexico City Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage "Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Doing a good deed for a price; Sally Satel's mailbox on kidney sales

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" “For the right price, yes, I would give up one of my organs to save someone’s life,” read the e-mail message, one of three dozen I re...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Israel revamps its priority system for deceased donor organs

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In an effort to increase the number of deceased organ donors, Israel has revamped its allocation system to give priority to those who have t...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Law and economics of repugnant markets

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Kimberly Krawiec at The Faculty Lounge, some time ago followed up on one of my posts with an interesting one of her own: Selecting for Sex...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Your computer as a marketplace for internet browsers

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Microsoft Makes New Concessions to Settle Browser Case "Microsoft has agreed to reconfigure its Windows operating system in Europe to a...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Indian marriage market for people in the same profession

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Amol Agrawal blogs about an Indian Matrimony website for people in development sector . It's here: devnetmatrimony.org . The site is in ...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Cousin marriage

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The NY Times writes about marriage between first cousins, which is illegal in exactly half of the 50 States of the U.S.: Shaking Off the Sha...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Child marriage

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Child brides' enduring plight: Problem illustrates hold of tribal doctrines "Yemen has no minimum age for marriage, and girls as yo...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

More non-simultaneous kidney chains

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A non-simultaneous chain with some interesting features is reported in Washington DC, followed by 3 non-simultaneous chains, starting with 3...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Kidney transplantation in China

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In China Daily: Kidneys illegally sold online "Two major online forums www.02066.com.cn and www.as.2sun.cn, are operating for organ bro...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

The most selective colleges are getting more selective

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That is the conclusion Caroline Hoxby reaches in " The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges " Here's the abstract (the pa...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Matching and "undermatching" in college admissions

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A recent commentary in the Chronicle of Higher Education summarizes a new book on how (in)frequently students finish college in the canonica...

Computer assisted markets: infrastructure

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Some time ago the NY Times ran a story on "smart infrastructure:" Bringing Efficiency to the Infrastructure The story was mostly h...
Friday, December 11, 2009

Shill bidding in domain name auctions

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SnapNames Employee Caught Bidding on Auctions That's from Elliot's Blog: Domain Name Investing News and Tips . (And you wondered why...

School assignment in New York City

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The December issue of the American Economic Review has our paper on the redesign of the NYC high school assignment system: Abdulkadiroglu, A...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Auction design by Paul Klemperer

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Paul Klemperer alerts me to two new market design papers. He writes "here is the paper about the Product-Mix Auction, the new auction d...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Course allocation at HBS

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Some of the gems of the market design literature involve the careful analysis of existing institutions for allocating scarce goods, to unde...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Law and market design

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Law obviously plays an enormous role in market design. Haifa University's Forum for Law and Markets is hosting a conference today on Beh...

Compensation for donors of human eggs for medical research

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Fox News carries the following press release: Pro-Life Feminist Group Sues NYS over Compensation for Women's Eggs . "Feminists C...
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Monday, December 7, 2009

The market for blood plasma

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Is Money Tainting the Plasma Supply? "Hundreds, probably thousands, of Mexicans like Ms. Delgado come to the United States to trade the...
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Compensating blood donors

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Robert Slonim, Mario Macis, and Nicola Lacetera report on the effect of (non-cash) incentives on whole blood donation: Will There Be Blood? ...
Sunday, December 6, 2009

DARPA Red balloons at MIT

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The DARPA network challenge has been won by the MIT team: MIT wins $40,000 prize in nationwide balloon-hunt contest "On MIT's Web...

New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage Bill

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Same sex marriage continues to teeter on the cusp of whether Americans regard it as a repugnant transaction , whether it should be legal or ...
Saturday, December 5, 2009

Market for kidnapping

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The Hostage Business "Few sectors have endured the economic downturn of recent years better than kidnapping. Confidence in big banks an...

Deferred acceptance in Ghanian school choice

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Kehinde Ajayi , a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, is studying school choice in Gha...
Friday, December 4, 2009

School choice in San Francisco, Chicago, and Cambridge MA

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Changes in school assignment procedures are being discussed in San Francisco, Chicago, and even Cambridge, MA. In San Francisco, the rede...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

New York City High School choices are due Dec 4

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These days I follow the NYC high schools from a distance, but it's gratifying to see some of the long lasting changes that Atila Abdulka...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Kidney exchange in People Magazine

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In the Nov 30 issue, with Johnny Depp on the cover. "The chain's home base is the University of Toledo Medical Center, where transp...
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The signaling deadline for the economics job market is midnight tonight

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A quarter of new Ph.D.s who failed to signal last year reported that it was because they missed the deadline. The deadline is midnight tonig...