Saturday, April 28, 2012

The OPTN Kidney Paired Donation Program --progress report, April 2012

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Since opening for business in late 2010, the UNOS/OPTN kidney exchange pilot program has succeeded in enrolling many transplant centers. Bu...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Jacob Leshno defends his Ph.D. dissertation

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Defense 4 Dr. Jacob Leshno (in suit:), and Al Roth, Susan Athey, and Ariel Pakes (Drew Fudenberg on skype) And here is what the pictu...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Eduardo Azevedo defends his Ph.D. dissertation

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Defense 3 Eduardo Azevedo (in suit:) having just fended off his committee: from left, Eric Budish, Al Roth, Oliver Hart, Susan Athey, A...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Boston kindergartens and preschool places

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Boston is short of good public kindergarten places. This in turn creates a demand for preschool places, since preschool kids move up automat...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Game theory in Operations Research

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The venerable journal Operations Research has a new subject area, with distinguished area editors: Games, Information, and Networks ...

Yuichiro Kamada defends his Ph.D. dissertation

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Defense 2 (Offense 0) Yuichiro (in suit:), with Tomasz Strzalecki and Al Roth (and Drew Fudenberg and Attila Ambrus via skype) Yuic...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Katie Baldiga defends her Ph.D. dissertation

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Defense 1 (Offense 0) Katie Baldiga and her committee of admirers: Iris Bohnet, Al Roth, Jerry Green (and Drew Fudenberg via skype) (A...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

How to evaluate school choice: Daily Telegraph

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The Daily Telegraph has an article about school choice in Britain that uses what strikes me as a tricky standard to declare that something i...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Matching Mechanisms, Market Design Seen as Tools to Address Inequality

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A conference in Chicago, this past February, organized by Scott Kominers: Here's the press release--  http://ineteconomics.org/research...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Online labor markets

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John Horton, who has an online labor blog , has compiled a great list of online labor markets . Here's what it looked like when I recent...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

College admissions committees and how they work

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Inside Higher Ed has a story: How They Really Get In , based on surveys of selective colleges and universities conducted by by Rachel B. Rub...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Long college waiting lists are long shots...

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In case you didn't know: Colleges' Tough Waiting Game: Schools Keep Hundreds of Applicants on Reserve Lists, but Very Few of Them Ge...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

School Choice in New Orleans with top trading cycles

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Something exciting is happening in New Orleans Recovery School District: a novel school choice algorithm is being tried out for the first ti...
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Monday, April 16, 2012

How to finance kidney exchange?

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In kidney exchange  (also called kidney paired donation), potential donors have to be evaluated without knowing what patient, if any, their ...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Attacks on the Defense of Marriage Act

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The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, designed to 'defend' marriage from those States that have legalized same sex marriage, is under re...
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Market design lecture today

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If you're on the Harvard campus this afternoon, perhaps because you are an alum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and are here...

Harvard admissions

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Some statistics: Harvard Accepts Record Low of 5.9 Percent to the Class of 2016 "In total, including the 772 students admitted in Dec...
Friday, April 13, 2012

Starting a new university

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Inside Higher Ed has an article on the Minerva Project , named after the Roman  goddess of wisdom , about an attempt to start a new, elite, ...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Trafficking in Spain's legal prostitution market

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A story of crime and human trafficking in Spain's legal market for prostitution, that is scary on many levels: In Spain, Women Enslaved ...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

A black market kidney sales dystopia in China

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This is the kind of black market that keeps my surgeon colleague Frank Delmonico travelling around the world in an effort to firm up laws (a...
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