Friday, February 11, 2011

Experiments in Industrial Organization

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Hans-Theo Normann and Bradley Ruffle have edited a special issue of the International Journal of Industrial Organization on Experiments in...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Experimental conference and summer school at Barcelona in June

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There will be lots to learn... 2nd LeeX International Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics , June 10-11, 2011at Univer...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Wake Forest coach donates a kidney to player

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The story is here , it was published yesterday, and I saw it only after yesterday's blog post of organ donation stories. " When a...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Misc. organ donation stories

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Here's a live donor kidney site run a bit in the style of a traditional matchmaker ( שַׁדְּכָן ‎) by an orthodox Jewish woman who donate...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Through the looking glass of medical ethics: compatible pairs in kidney exchange

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Some time ago my colleagues and I observed that there would be really large gains in terms of increased numbers of transplants from inviting...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

Nonsimultaneous kidney exchange chains produce more transplants than simultaneous chains

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That's the conclusion of a new paper, Ashlagi, Itai, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth, and Michael A. Rees, ''Nonsimultaneous...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Can we make school choice more efficient?

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A new paper by Eduardo Azevedo and Jacob Leshno addresses a recent puzzle in school choice: Can we make school choice more efficient? An E...
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Friday, February 4, 2011

Coalition Theory Workshop in Barcelona

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Today and tomorrow: The 16th Coalition Theory Network Workshop Barcelona, February 4-5, 2011 Matching and market design are well represent...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

Shift swapping in the Boston fire department

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The Globe has an illuminating article on a system originally intended to allow Boston fire fighters to trade shifts with one another without...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

College admissions in Texas: unintended consequences of the 10% rule

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Under the headline Strategic Displacement , Inside Higher Ed covers the recent NBER paper Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Cho...