Sunday, September 26, 2010

Bernanke on economic engineering

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Speech by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, At the Conference Co-sponsored by the Center for Economic Policy Studies and the Bendheim Center for Fin...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Organ markets, transplant tourism, and compensation of donors in Asia

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The Australian ABC News carries a story about transplant tourism that seems to focus on China (but which I hope is a little dated ): Austral...
Friday, September 24, 2010

College admissions through the common ap, and supplements as signals

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The Common Application makes it easy to apply to one more college. So colleges that use it get an increase in applications, some of which m...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

San Francisco school choice goes in-house

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Those of you who have been following school choice developments here know that, for the past year,  Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Clayton Featherst...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

What have we learned from market design? Update to Roth 2008

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Not quite a new paper, but I was asked to provide a postscript for Roth (2008). What have we learned from market design? Update to Roth (2...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Computational aspects of matching

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The Third International Workshop on Computational Social Choice Düsseldorf, Germany, September 13–16, 2010, looks to have been a very intere...
Monday, September 20, 2010

A poorly designed Medicare auction

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Peter Cramton writes: Dear Al, Below is my email to colleagues in market design. The "brief note" below tells the story. If any ...
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Kidney exchange at the Center for Research on Computation and Society

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I'll be speaking today at Harvard's CRCS lunchtime talk: Monday, September 20, 2010: Alvin Roth, Harvard Business School on Kidney ...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

Kidney exchange at NEPKE and the APD

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At XXIII International Conference of The Transplantation Society in Vancouver this past August, colleagues of mine presented the following t...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

The market for books (right after the invention of printing)

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Printed books didn't replace hand lettered books and scrolls overnight. The Boston Globe interviews Andrew Pettegree, a professor of ...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Cleaning up the scramble for medical residents with SOAP

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Changes are coming in the scramble that follows the medical resident match run by the National Resident Matching Program ( NRMP ). A new, se...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Could academic tenure become a repugnant transaction?

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In an essay in the NY Times Book Review, Christopher Shea reflects on some recent books that suggest it might: The End of Tenure? "In...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Judd Kessler on the roommate problem in 2002

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In response to my recent posts on roommate matching for college students, Judd Kessler points me to a newspaper column he wrote in 2002, on...

Scott Duke Kominers at Yahoo!

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You can see a very short video of Scott , drunk on market design juice, being interviewed at The View from Yahoo! Labs’ Key Scientific Chall...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Craigslist market for erotic/adult services

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Scott Cunningham at Baylor, who is a serious student of illicit labor markets (e.g. the market for sex), writes "Not sure if you saw...
Monday, September 13, 2010

NSF "Grand Challenge" white paper on market design

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The National Science Foundation has asked for two-thousand-word 'white papers ' on challenges worth exploring over the next decade. ...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Matchmaking at Harvard, the roommate problem

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The Crimson reports, In Choosing Roommates, Deans Become Matchmakers . "The day is June 10, and Resident Dean of Freshmen Sue Brown e...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Somali Pirates

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U.S. Forces Free Ship From Somali Pirates "American officials said the rescue appeared to be the first time the American military had...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Dual career couples

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Although dual career couples in academia aren't strictly speaking (only) a gender concern, the best collection of resources on academic ...
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Shana Tova, 5771

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Calendars both mark the passage of time and help people coordinate their activities. Labor Day is late this year, and the Jewish new year, R...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

A long non-simultaneous kidney exchange chain

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Mike Rees' revolution in kidney exchange-- non-simultaneous extended altrusitic donor (NEAD) chains --continues to grow.. Here's a s...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

NBER Market Design conference, October 8-9 in Cambridge MA

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The conference is organized by Susan Athey and Parag Pathak. Here is a preliminary program : Friday, October 8 8:30 am Breakfast 8:55 a...

THE LAW CLERK HIRING PLAN FOR 2010

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Here it is , with today (Sept 7, 2010), being the "First date when applications may be received" for federal judicial clerkships. ...
Monday, September 6, 2010

The law and economics of surrogate motherhood: what contracts should be legal?

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Aristides N. Hatzis writes to let me know about his work on the law and economics of surrogacy, and related topics, as follows (I've in...
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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Misc. kidney exchanges

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The New England Journal of Medicine has created a virtual library of it's kidney transplant articles , I think all of which are now unga...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

College admissions statistics, sampled for 2010-11

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The NY Times offers a table of statistics  (which I can't copy properly for some reason) and an accompanying story about the admissions...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Ethnic dating sites

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

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That's the title of a paper that Judd Kessler and I recently finished, motivated by one aspect of organ donation in Singapore (and rece...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The wheels of justice and Ladies' Nights

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A year ago today I blogged about a lawyer who objected to differential pricing for the two sides of a matching market: he didn't like ...
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Further consequences of the unraveling of the market for law grads

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The NY Times reports that some of the young lawyers who were made permanent offers after their second year summer associateships in August 2...
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