Monday, July 19, 2010

Kidney exchange story at NEPKE

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Market design is full of both frustration and satisfaction. Kidney exchange provides an unusual amount of each. Sometimes the satisfacti...
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Market design in Australia?

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The Australian prime minister Julia Gillard makes a speech in which she refers to "market design." (I can't tell exactly what ...

Misc. kidney exchanges and chains

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At the University of Wisconsin hospital, a non-directed donor chain involving four donors and four recipients was completed in a day: At UW ...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

Signaling preferences in matching markets

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Preference Signaling in Matching Markets , by Peter Coles , Alexey Kushnir , and Muriel Niederle , NBER Working Paper No. 16185, July 2010. ...

marketdesigner.blogspot.xxx

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Sex domain .xxx approved by regulators . "ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, which is responsible for over...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Polyandry

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Polyandry is much less common in the world than the other form of polygamy, polygyny, in which a man has two or more wives. In polyandrous h...
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David Blackwell

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David H. Blackwell dies at 91; pioneering statistician at Howard and Berkeley "David H. Blackwell, 91, who rose from poverty in Souther...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Consolidation and competition among economics jobs aggregators

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At VoxEu, there's an announcement today (July 16) of a new service and a combining of forces: Introducing a free database of nearly all ...
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Dov Samet on marrying well

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Dubi Samet has a paper on stable marriage, explaining why you might have married as well as you did, and explaining how, when there is subst...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Game theory from A to Z

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I'll be travelling this morning to Stony Brook, to participate in the part of their annual festival that is celebrating Bob Aumann's...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Hiring Indian wombs

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Steve Leider writes: The Indian Parliament will be considering legislation to regulate the practice of commercial surrogacy in India....
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The market for musicians (in top orchestras)

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Need a Job? Help Wanted at the N.Y. Philharmonic . These posts, naturally, are rarefied and have little to do with the normal job picture n...
Monday, July 12, 2010

"The practical power of game theory"

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That's the title of Northwestern's news release about my 2010 Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture . (The title of the lecture was ...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Egg shortage in Britain

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Desperate hunt for donor eggs forces couples to seek IVF abroad , the Telegraph reports. "Waiting lists for fertility treatment invo...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Same sex marriage in Kagan's confirmation hearings

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The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan provide an excuse for a NY Times OpEd by Jonathan Rauch to speculate on how ...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Boston Judge Rules Federal Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

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Judge Rules Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional "A U.S. judge in Boston has ruled that a federal gay marriage ban is unconstitutional ...
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Deceased organ donor registry in NY

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The NY Organ Donor Network has issued the following news release about a change in NY State to facilitate online registration. NEW YORK ORGA...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Cryonics as a repugnant transaction

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The NY Times has an article on those who wish to have their remains frozen after death, in the hope of eventual resurrection at a time when ...

The Market for scientists

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"It’s not an education story, it’s a labor market story,” says Harold Salzman in a Miller-McCune story by Beryl Lieff Benderly about th...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Growth of kidney donation by unrelated donors

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Kidney exchange has allowed more people to receive kidneys from unrelated donors, but that isn't all that's going on, it has also be...