Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Papers on matching by job market candidates

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Matching is popular on the economics job market this year, including interesting papers from students other than mine . Here are a few that ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Modern romance in China

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World's largest dating event sees 20,000 Chinese search for love The headline speaks for itself, but the article reveals some local to...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Friend or food? Horse meat for human consumption, Congress and PETA

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Regarding the ban on slaughtering horses to produce horse meat for human consumption, see these previous posts . There have been a rash of r...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

A heterodox economist looks (disapprovingly) at market design

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Ana Santos writes, not-entirely-unsympathetically, about choice architecture and market design, based on her reading of Thaler and Sunstein...
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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Naked hiking is legally repugnant in at least one Swiss canton

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Switzerland seems to be a land of contradictions. The BBC reports,  Swiss can ban naked hiking, court rules " Switzerland's high...
Friday, December 9, 2011

College admissions, exams, and "clearing" in Britain

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The Telegraph reports:  Academic condemns 'tortuous' university admissions "Mary Beard, the Cambridge University classics prof...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Buying and selling pensions

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Does buying future payoffs on someone else's pension become more or less repugnant if that person is in financial distress? (This is an ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Legacies in college admissions

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The NY Times writes about the burden of having a parent who went to an Ivy League college: Being a Legacy Has Its Burden But, for all the ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A kidney donor argues that selling kidneys should be legal

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An op-ed in today's NY Times, by Alexander Berger, scheduled to donate a kidney on Thursday: Why Selling Kidneys Should Be Legal He...

The role of recruiting in hiring and career choice

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Matching is the part of economics that studies who gets what, for things that are not allocated entirely by price. So, if there's an app...
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Monday, December 5, 2011

The blackest of kidney black markets

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Can some black markets be blacker than others? Two longtime observers of black markets for kidney transplants nominate some. Ethan Gutmann...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

Kidney sales and trafficking

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There have been a number of recent stories about criminal organ-trafficking rings around the world.  Here's a long quote from the one th...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

Lectures on market design by Clayton Featherstone, Eduardo Azevedo, and Jacob Leshno

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Good market designers aren't necessarily good teachers, but three recent lectures in our market design class (two of them yesterday) rev...
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Seattle backs away from transparent (strategy-proof) school choice

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It appears that, after a decade of using a school choice system based at least in part on a deferred acceptance algorithm, in the course of ...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Paying bone marrow donors is now legal (depending on how it's done)

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Joshua Gans forwards me this, just in on the AP wire from the Washington Post: Court says some bone marrow donors can be paid, overturning ...

What does the NSF do? What should it do? Reports from and about the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, and Dec 1 Webinar

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What should the National Science Foundation division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences be doing? They asked and we answered , and...