Thursday, April 28, 2011

Deceased donor kidney allocation--webinar today

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The UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee proposal to change the existing kidney-allocation policy for deceased donors Webinar: Thursday...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The underlying structure of matching models: Scott Kominers

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Scott recently finished his unusually well attended dissertation defense. He's engaged in a wide ranging effort to prove all the famil...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A match for the law firm market?

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Paul Kominers points me to this item: New ‘JD Match’ to Help Law Firms Find Law Students to Interview; K&L Gates Giving Service a Tryout...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Pre-kindergarten and school choice in Boston

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Boston has a pre-kindergarten program that doesn't have enough spaces to meet demand, particularly because it is an entryway into the fu...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Ad for custom egg donor

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An ad in the Harvard Crimson (the student newspaper) reflects some of the fast-changing world of same-sex marriage and the market for repro...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Misc. repugnant transactions

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Kung Pao Kitten  (a recipe meant as a joke, that elicited lots of complaints...) Student suspended from fraternity for having sex with g...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Susan Athey and the National Medal of Science

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No, not yet. But this. The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 21, 2011 President Obama Announces More...

Laws against polygamy to be tested in Canada

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Canadian laws against polygamy will be tested in a suit brought against some of the inhabitants of the rural enclave of Bountiful, British C...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Exploding offers and the market culture of law reviews

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Here's an April 19 open letter To the legal community from a number of student-edited law journals. " In recent years, many law ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A danceable economic experiment on public good provision

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Lights! Dancers! Economics! "If Milton Friedman and Martha Graham had a love child, it might look something like the "Tragedy of...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mixed martial arts: a formerly repugnant transaction?

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New York State is one of the few holdouts, and a recent Op-Ed in the NY Times anticipates that will end: It Only Looks Dangerous "MIX...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Jon Levin, Clark Medalist

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Among a long list of accomplishments , the AEA includes these: " The Organization and Design of Markets A second main strand of Levi...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Edelman on Bloomberg on Google

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Antitrust regulation is of course a form of market design. Ben Edelman talks about his concerns here .
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Jeff Ely on market design

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Jeff Ely is a very serious microeconomist indeed, so it isn't cheap talk when he gives market design a big compliment and  writes of: ...
Friday, April 15, 2011

High school choice in New York City

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The outcome of the main match for positions in NYC high schools has come out, and about 8,000 children (out of somewhat more than 80,000) di...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

France Enforces Ban on Full-Face Veils in Public

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Here's the story in the NY Times. " A French ban outlawing full-face veils in public, the first to be enacted in Europe, came in...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Delayed college admissions

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The NY Times reports on a new trend in enrollment management: Admission to College, With Catch: Year’s Wait "Now, as colleges are inc...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Medical residency scramble

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Dr.  Naveed Saleh, writing in New Physician, describes some of the different prognoses suggested for the new resident scramble (SOAP) which ...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Live donor teeth (and George Washington)

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Owen Ozier writes: "I have been reading Ron Chernow's 2010 biography of George Washington, and came across a passage about the tra...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Swoopo: gone but not forgotten

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Swoopo is reported to be bankrupt: Goodnight, Swoopo: The Pay-Per-Bid Auction Site Is Dead I blogged in 2009 about A proliferation of pen...
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

2011 Summer School: Market Failure and Market Design

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2011 Summer School. Market Failure and Market Design , Louvain-la-Neuve, May 23-26, 2011 To submit a paper: Those interested should submit...

Should there be a donor kidney market? Latest version of a familiar debate

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The Los Angeles Times published a short debate between two familiar interlocuters, Ben Hippen and Frank Delmonico: Pro/con The consequences ...
Friday, April 8, 2011

Medicare payments for dialysis

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The New York Times describes the growing federal expenses for dialysis, and some surrounding controversy: When Ailments Pile Up, Asking Pati...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Donation after cardiac death

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When are you dead? An article in Stanford Medicine explores the question, which becomes pointed when the subject is deceased organ donation...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Redesigning the market for bribes (by making some bribes legal to give)

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Kaushik Basu , currently on leave from Cornell as Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, ha...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Review of kidney exchange

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Here's a new article reviewing developments in kidney exchange, aka kidney paired donation (not "published" yet, but just app...
Monday, April 4, 2011

The gastro fellowship match after five years

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A recent article takes stock of the Gastroenterology fellowship match, five years after it was reinstated with some new design rules (about ...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Profile in the Boston Globe: "The Matchmaker"

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Leon Neyfakh  writes about me and market design in the Sunday Boston Globe: The Matchmaker: The Harvard economist who stopped just studying...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

LCD Soundsystem and ticket scalping

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Jacob Leshno (who is a fan of both market design and LCD soundsystem) writes to alert me to some stories about their "final" conce...
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Friday, April 1, 2011

Matching and Price Theory

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That's the name of a conference being held at the Milton Friedman Institute: Matching and Price Theory, May 6-7, 2011 F riday, May 6: ...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Boston Globe on school choice

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The Boston Globe has a series of articles and videos on the Boston School choice system, and the experience of getting in, or not, to your f...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Kim Krawiec reflects on organ donation

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I recently gave a talk at Duke U. Law School, on my paper with Judd Kessler  (who will be a professor at Wharton next year). In the law scho...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Report from the front on the war for talent

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From a recent NY Times article on recruiting in Silicon Valley: "Two executives at a small start-up who spoke on the condition of ano...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Same sex marriage still a repugnant transaction in Maryland

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Same-Sex Marriage Bill Falls Short in Maryland "The speaker of Maryland’s Democratic-controlled House of Delegates, Michael E. Busch,...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Misc. kidney transplantation

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In Texas, where everything is the biggest, the Texas Transplant Physician Group says they are the biggest " in Texas AND the United St...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Marijuana in Montana and shark-fin soup in California

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Two NY Times stories about repugnant markets caught my eye: Soup Without Fins? Some Californians Simmer and In Montana, an Economic B...
Friday, March 25, 2011

AMMA 2011 The Second Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications

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  AMMA 2011: The Second Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications    New York, NY August 22-23, 2011  Call for papers...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Unraveling of NBA (and college) basketball

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The NY Times Magazine writes about the Baylor freshman basketball player who is already an NBA draft prospect: Is it Dunk and Done for Perry...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The surrogacy supermarket in India

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This graphic, about the thriving pregnancy-for-hire market in India, is from the article  Moms market , by Namita Kohli, in the Hindustan ...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

2011 job market scramble for new economics Ph.D.s

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The AEA's Economics job market scramble web page opens for registration tomorrow. 2011 Job Market Scramble Important Dates: March 23: R...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Are college places in the U.K. like Japanese medical internships?

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That's the question raised in this Times Higher Education story by Simon Baker: Could Japanese hospital doctors offer a remedy to studen...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Match Day 2011

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This past Thursday, medical school seniors found out where they are matched to residencies. Ishani Ganguli, one of the newest in the fine tr...
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