Sunday, November 27, 2011

Matching in Practice conference: 28 November, Budapest

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Peter Biro writes: Hi Al, the European research network on Matching in Practice will have its third workshop on 28 November, this time in...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Gift registries for everything

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Are people starting to think what gifts to buy you? US Airways sends me the following email: Don’t just wish for the miles you want…Ask ...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Liver transplants for alcoholics?

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Here's hoping you didn't drink too much yesterday:  Study stirs debate over transplants for alcoholics "Some gravely ill alco...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Raising turkeys for Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving y'all:) Here's timely advice from North Carolina Cooperative Extension if you're thinking of starting a sma...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

College admissions and searchable data

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A slightly breathless but interesting story in The Washington Monthly about college admissions, and how it may be transformed by data mining...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Surrogacy as a business

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Excerpts from The Red Market: Cash on Delivery "India legalized surrogacy in 2002 as part of a larger effort to promote medical touri...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

Matching and market design session at SAET in Australia in July

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Fuhito Kojima writes: Call for submissions: I am organizing a session on matching and market design in SAET 2012:  http://www.saet.illinoi...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Schools' choices and school choice in England

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In the U.S., charter schools are typically not allowed to be choosy: they often have to offer admission strictly by lottery. In England, the...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

School choice in New Orleans

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New Orleans has some ambitious plans for a unified school choice plan in a city whose schools will include many independent charter schools....
Friday, November 18, 2011

School Choice in Chicago

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CPS Application Plan Moves Ahead " The Chicago Board of Education approved a resolution Wednesday that would require all incoming 9th...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

School Choice in Denver

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Denver is implementing a new school choice system. IIPSC , the Institute for Innovation in Public School Choice, is helping. Denver Public S...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Congratulations to Muriel Niederle

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If that's white smoke coming out of the faculty meeting at the College of Cardinal , it must mean that Muriel Niederle has just been pr...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Boston school choice: waiting lists

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The Boston Globe looks at waiting lists for Boston Public Schools. Some wait lists don't move until after the first week of classes, whe...
Monday, November 14, 2011

A supply and demand model for stable matchings, by Eduardo Azevedo and Jacob Leshno

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Much of two-sided matching theory has been developed using discrete mathematics, which has led to beautiful theorems about lattices and stab...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

For Love or Money

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Kim Krawiec writes "The conference volume  For Love Or Money: Defining Relationships in Law and Life  has finally been published, yeah...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Market design at INFORMS, Nov 13-15 in Charlotte NC

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When I got my Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1974, it looked like game theory might find a natural home in OR and Management Science. Short...
Friday, November 11, 2011

How to allocate goods when the waiting list is essentially infinite. New queues for overloaded systems, by Jacob Leshno

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Matching is about who gets what when allocation isn't entirely by price. And a common means of allocating scarce goods is by waiting lis...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Should you guess on the SAT? And do you? Katie Baldiga finds men and women are different.

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What accounts for the gender gap in (high) test scores, for the fact that SAT scores predict college success less well for women then for me...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Matching Japanese Doctors: problems with the current mechanisms, and suggestions for improvement by Yuichiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima

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How to get more doctors into rural hospitals? That's a problem that confronts Japanese medical administrators, and American ones too. Ap...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Market design in a future of trusted smart markets: paper by Eduardo Azevedo and Eric Budish

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The recent NBER conference on market design had a number of remarkable papers. One of them, by Eduardo Azevedo and Eric Budish , seems to m...