Friday, October 19, 2012

Back in my old haunts

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I'll be guest lecturing today in my old market design class at Harvard, as  now taught by Peter Coles and Ben Edelman. I'll speak a...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Kidney exchange in India

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This story of kidney exchange in India reminds me of the early days in the U.S., before there was a thick marketplace. (In addition it soun...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Kidney exchange: stories of donors and recipients

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Kidney exchange isn't just about the technology of matching and the logistics of arranging many surgeries, or difficult ones, it is also...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

An inadvertent ad for Starbucks

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5AM at our house yesterday, between phone calls... and later that morning... more photos here  (by Linda Cicero for Stanford).

Unusual day yesterday...

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Well, I had an unusual day yesterday. But I'm not much further along digesting it. So I think I'll go back to usual (non Nobel) blog...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

Blog may be delayed today...

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Count me as surprised...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

The market for chocolate (hint: rich people eat it...)

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The venerable Onion has a competitor in the sometimes pretty funny New England Journal of Medicine, which notes the correlation between nati...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Matching students to professors and research projects

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ResearchMat . ch Alpha  http://researchmat.ch/  We're a quick and easy way to match students and professors for the most successf...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Repugnance watch: Texas is different

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Time Magazine has the story : " Two Texas mothers set off a firestorm recently when  they complained  that a male assistant principal...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

A wife-carrying championship dynasty

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We have a new championship pair in the World Wife Carrying Championships in Finland, and they are the old champions. (I like wife carrying b...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Privacy of auction bids

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Steve Leider writes: I came on an interesting market design anecdote in a larger article about cryptography ( http://arstechnica.com/sec...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

School choice in the news again in Boston

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There are two things underlying school choice debates around the country: 1. In most big cities there aren't enough good schools for a...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Incentives for blood donation (and seminar by Bob Slonim today at Stanford)

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Bob Slonim  is visiting at Stanford this quarter, and will be giving a seminar today: here's the announcement. Mon, Oct 8, 3:30PM -...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

Dual career academic couples--some thoughts on negotiations

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A dean shares some thoughts on the negotiations and some of the obstacles that face dual career couples, and particularly the second member ...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

The online market for tailors

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One of the markets that the internet seems likely to change profoundly is the market for custom clothing. Bloomberg news had a recent  repor...
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Friday, October 5, 2012

Literary agents as matchmakers

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Their secret, says Michael Bourne, is to try not to spend much time on work that they don't think they can sell... “A Right Fit”: Naviga...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

School choice in Tel Aviv takes friendships into account

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From the paper: The Friends Factor: How Students’ Social Networks Affect Their Academic Achievement and Well-Being? , September 2012, by V...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Free-will marriages in Pakistan

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Marriage is a tough matching problem under any circumstances, but women who wish to choose their own spouse in Pakistan may face special pr...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

New zones in Boston Public School choice

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Boston's school choice system is presently organized intro districts, and parents can submit preferences for schools in their district (...
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Monday, October 1, 2012

Proposed revisions to deceased donor kidney allocation policy

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Here's an announcement about the newly proposed revision of the deceased donor kidney allocation policy (at the end of the post I have a...