Friday, October 21, 2011

Tomorrow, Oct 22 I'll be teaching NYC math teachers about stable matching and NYC school choice

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Stable Matching with Application to School Choice with Al Roth If you are a NYC high school or middle school math teacher you can registe...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Teach for America's recruiting at Harvard

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The Crimson is full of admiration for TFA's successful recruiting at Harvard: apparently 18% of Harvard seniors applied for TFA positio...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Florida puts university salaries online

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The State of Florida has posted its salary information, including state university salaries, online: Florida has a right to know . (Other ...
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First Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day (CAEC'11)

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Susan Athey asks me to post the following announcement about a forthcoming conference on the economics of the internet: First Cambridge A...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Will marijuana use remain repugnant?

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The Gallup poll reports  Record-High 50% of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana Use
Monday, October 17, 2011

I speak about kidney exchange at Harvard Medical School

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As the seminar announcement makes clear, part of the attraction (at least to third year students) is the free food:) John Warren Surgica...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Kosovo organ trafficking case opens

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Trial Opens for 7 Kosovars in Organ-Trafficking Case " The suspects are accused of luring victims from Turkey and former Communist co...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Online dating, later in life

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Job markets have scrambles  for late action, and it turns out that it's never too late for online dating either, the NY Times reports: S...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Uniform notification date for postdoctoral positions in professional psychology

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APPIC , the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, runs a centralized match for (pre-doctoral) internships that use...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Unraveling: a brief review (and reply)

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The peer review process, for all its flaws, normally eliminates the need to write the kind of wide-ranging reply that I have forthcoming in ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Another year of the judicial clerkship market: maybe the last one under the current system?

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Another year, more bad behavior by judges hiring clerks: Judges Compete for Law Clerks on a Lawless Terrain . (Banning cell phones in courth...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Unraveling in soccer: Real Madrid signs 7-year old

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Real Madrid signs 7-year-old "Real Madrid has signed a 7-year-old soccer prodigy from Argentina who goes by the name Leo... "...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Unraveling of presidential primary dates, continued

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Labor markets aren't the only things that unravel : the competition to be influential in selecting presidential candidates continues to ...
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Leading indicator on economics job market, October 2011

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John Siegfried writes: " Here are data identifying the number of new jobs listed in the September and October JOE for recent years. ...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Wait-lists in college admissions

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Inside Higher Ed reports :  "at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling -- colleges' wait-...
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Euroeconomistjobs.com, a site for jobs for economists in Europe

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Euroeconomistjobs.com caught my eye with this ad: Specialist: Industrial Economics, Organizational and Market Design UCL - Université C...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Mike Luca on Yelp

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My colleague Mike Luca (whose work I wrote about here  when he was still a grad student) has a paper on the influence of Yelp reviews on ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Law schools and transfer students

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A recent paper discusses a growing trend: many law students transfer from the law school to which they are initially admitted to a higher ra...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Kessler-Roth at the Health Law Policy and Bioethics Workshop today

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At 5pm today Judd Kessler and I will be speaking at Harvard Law School at this seminar *, on this paper **... It's open to the public...

If fur is repugnant (in West Hollywood, CA), why not leather?

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That's the question the NY Times asks ( Ban Fur? Then Why Not Leather? ) following the decision by the city of West Hollywood California...