Sunday, September 2, 2012

Uri Rothblum's intellectual legacies

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The journal Linear Algebra and its Applications has published an article in memoriam of Uri Rothblum, who passed away in March of this yea...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

Internet dating survey

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Quantifying the Online-Dating Revolution " The internet is especially important in “thin” dating markets, those in which people encou...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

Bad market design by design at U of Central Florida...and Craigslist?

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Course registration can be a pain, but at the University of Central Florida they apparently don't want anyone trying to make it easier: ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Kidney donation and (loss of) medical insurance

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Some things are so far off the equilibrium path that they drive me crazy:  The Reward for Donating a Kidney: No Insurance "Like most ...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Collusion, for fun and profit: Marshall and Marx

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I was delighted to receive in the mail the new book The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings , by Robert C. Marshall and Les...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Circumcision: maybe not so repugnant after all

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While a German court's ban on circumcision earlier this summer continues to be debated in Germany (where c riminal charges have now bee...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Iraqi arranged marriages--the suicide constraint

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The individual rationality constraint isn't very binding when individuals don't have good outside options, but it doesn't entire...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Call for Papers: "Special Issue on Matching under Preferences" - Algorithms

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Mike Ostrovsky forwards me this announcement he received by email: Call for Papers: Special Issue: "Special Issue on Matching under P...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Regulating prostitution in New Zealand

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An incentive issue (although they are not the focus of this story ): " But the Prostitutes Collective warned that outlawing popular st...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Incentives and organ donation in Germany

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Bettina Klaus writes:   There is an article about a recent organ donation scandal at the university hospital Goettingen .  One of the tran...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Assisted dying: still illegal, still controversial

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The death yesterday of a British advocate for medically assisted death for terminally ill patients brings back the debate about whether phys...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Selective abortion based on gender: illegal in Britain but not in the U.S.

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Two stories, the first from the Telegraph and the second from the Washington Post, reveal the different legal status of abortions for the pu...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Organs and tissue markets and black markets

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NPR has a series of posts on tissue donation, which includes bones and sinews, and for which there's a regulated market, but also a blac...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Moving on...new address

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My new address: Al Roth Landau Economics Building 579 Serra Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6072 (Previous anno...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Two-tier tuition and foreign students at British universities

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How foreign students with lower grades jump the university queue :   Exclusive: Foreign students are being offered places at top British u...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Whales as food: the rise of a repugnant transaction

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Pablo Guillen points me to the work of his Sydney Uni colleague Charlotte Epstein: The Power of Words in International Relations--Birth of a...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Matching to conceal homosexuality in China

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Here's an unusual twist on repugnant transactions, from The Economist:  Gay marriage gone wrong "In recent years some have found ...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Preparing for sorority rush

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The college kids who grew up on test preparation courses are now taking sorority rush preparation courses ...to get a head start on rush... ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Salaries of new law grads

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Salaries of new law grads have been bimodal for some time (at least since 2000), with the high mode being hires at large law firms. That mod...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

College football playoffs on the horizon?

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This is a bit dated but still interesting: Inside Higher Ed reports on Playoff Politics " The move to a playoff does represent “a lit...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Death and choices

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Two apparently unrelated stories in the NY Times both raise the issue of what choices about the end of life are and should be available, for...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Performance enhancing drugs for academic competition (highschool version)

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Bicycle racers use them. Special Ops troops do too. So we shouldn't be surprised that performance enhancing drugs are in the high school...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

More beans, less cod in Boston next year?

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"For the second straight year, the federal government is expected to lower catch limits on certain New England groundfish that swim cl...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Our boys in uniform: is it ok to be gay?

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The answer is evolving for our boys (and girls) in military uniform, but it is still no for boy scouts. Two signs of the times: Why ...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

NBER Market Design conference--call for papers (Oct 19-20, 2012)

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From: Susan Athey and Parag Pathak To: NBER Market Design Working Group The National Bureau of Economic Research workshop on Market ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Matching in the August AER

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Three papers in the August issue of the American Economic Review suggests that the study of matching is thriving. (2) A Field Stu...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The Economics of Spam by Rao and Reiley

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In the latest Journal of Economic Perspectives: The Economics of Spam  (open access). Justin M. Rao and David H. Reiley ...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Towards a standard acquisition charge for living donor kidney exchange

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The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded a grant to the Alliance for Paired Donation to explore a standard acquisitio...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

How Much Is Your Kidney Worth?

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Virginia Postrel uses the recent sentencing in a kidney brokering and sales case to consider How Much Is Your Kidney Worth? HT: Jonathan ...
Saturday, August 4, 2012

Altruistic donor chain in NY

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A news story about a recent non-directed donor kidney exchange chain at Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center caught my ...
Friday, August 3, 2012

Anatomist and grave robber

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His biographer writes about The Beauty of Bodysnatching: Astley Cooper (1768–1841), an English surgeon and anatomist, is remembered for his ...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Timing of theater reviews

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I have a longstanding interest in the timing of transactions (such as unraveling , when transactions become early, or sniping , when they b...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Middle school basketball recruiting

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Middle School Is Basketball’s Fiercest Recruiting Battleground "The high caliber of high school basketball in this region and the res...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Priority for organ donation in the UK?

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Britain's National Health Service is conducting a survey as part of an assessment of possible changes to its methods of acquiring and a...
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