Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Practical Exchange Design by McAfee and Vassilvitskii

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Google's Preston McAfee and Sergei Vassilvitskii offer a breezy  Overview of Practical Exchange Design Its conclusions: " A ric...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Public attitudes on compensation for donors

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Poll: Americans Show Support For Compensation Of Organ Donors "Federal law bans payments for organs. But given the need, we wondered...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Is market life sucking the meaning out of real life?

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Are too many things available to buy? That seems to be a theme of much recent literature that, at its worst, regrets how the economy has suc...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

NY Times debate: Is Prostitution Safer when It's Legal?

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The debate Is Prostitution Safer When It’s Legal?  mirrors in many ways the debate over whether legalizing compensation for kidney donors  (...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Maryland courts: same sex divorce isn't repugnant, even if marriage is

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Two weeks ago I reported on the Maryland court case about whether a same sex couple who got married in California could divorce in Maryland...
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Friday, May 18, 2012

Comparing countries through their universities

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Comparing universities is hard enough, and it's harder if they are in different countries, so imagine the caveats that must accompany th...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Why are there (still) fewer women professors than men?

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A study of chemistry Ph.D. students in Britain reveals that academic careers start looking disproportionately unattractive to women compared...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The handover of power in France

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Signs of the times: Hollande Sworn In as President of France "Mr. Hollande, the seventh president of the Fifth Republic, was accompa...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

In 100 years (my predictions)

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Ignacio Palacios-Huerta is editing a volume, In 100 Years , inspired by Keynes' 1930 essay, "Economic Possibilities of our Grandch...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

More on the market for economists: Harvard matters

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David Warsh discusses comings and goings at Harvard's Economics department, with particular attention to economic history: History Matte...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Mother's Day unraveling

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HT: Joshua Gans

Bone marrow registries

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The NY Times reports on an effort to start a bone marrow registry in Nigeria, and to increase donation among African Americans: Finding a Ma...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Compensation for bone marrow donors, continued

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The latest in the controversy over compensation for bone marrow donors is that the government's petition for a rehearing has been denie...
Friday, May 11, 2012

New Orleans school choice goes live

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Recovery School District says new pupil enrollment system is getting the job done The state-run district that governs most of the public...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

There's a market for economists

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The WSJ takes note: Battle for Academic Economists Is Heating Up
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A belt plus suspenders for North Carolina on same sex marriage, while Obama comes out (in favor)

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When is a repugnant transaction doubly repugnant? When a State that has a law against it passes a constitutional amendment against it, just ...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

How not to communicate about kidney exchange

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Kidney exchange , aka kidney paired donation is a great opportunity, but it has to be communicated to patients and donors. The state of the ...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Unraveling of the second year summer associate market: derailed on the fast track

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The meltdown of the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has consequences for the lawyers they hired years in advance. Here's a story about the ...
Monday, May 7, 2012

American economic association finances; legacy of Mark Perlman

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An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the finances of academic professional societies brings back fond memories of my la...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Same-sex divorce: A predictable repugnant transaction?

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A same sex couple who got married in California when same-sex marriages were briefly legal there, wants to get divorced in Maryland, where t...
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Dress exchange

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Joshua Gans points out to me that now there's a dress exchange  called 99dresses.comhttp://www.99dresses.com/ (which seems less complic...
Friday, May 4, 2012

School choice in Denver: early reports

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Denver has rolled out its new school choice system, and here are some news stories about the results: DPS school choice program accommodat...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

MIT celebrates Parag Pathak

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Game theory, in the real world: MIT economist Parag Pathak engineers practical solutions to complicated education problems ... In 2003...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Facebook promotes deceased organ donation

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Facebook Is Urging Members to Add Organ Donor Status " The company announced a plan on Tuesday morning to encourage everyone on Faceb...