Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Recent articles on kidney exchange

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On my reading list... Kidney paired donation: principles, protocols and programs Paolo Ferrari 1 , 2 , 3 , * ,  Willem Weimar 4 , 5 ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Conference today on Economic Incentives for Gender Parity

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I'll be a guest today at a conference that SIEPR is hosting for the Forum of Young Global Leaders , Economic Incentives for Gender Pari...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Near Feasible Stable Matchings with Complementarities, by Nguyen and Vohra

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Here's an interesting new paper on couples in matching markets. When couples are present, the set of stable matchings may be empty, but...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Sign spotted: Don't take your organs to heaven

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Sign spotted in the emergency room by a colleague...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

Boot camps for new software developers

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Tamar Lewin in the NY Times has the story on a new kind of educational institution, designed to quickly produce software developers:  Web-E...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

I'll speak today at San Jose State U. on "The Economist as Engineer"

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If you're in the neighborhood, come on by... Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium - Alvin E. Roth Since Fall 2002, the Charles ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Congratulations to Jean Tirole

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Hearty congratulations to Jean Tirole, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics. Or did he win The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic S...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Helping low income students with college applications

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David Leonhardt in the NY Times recently wrote about ‘A National Admissions Office’ for Low-Income Strivers , about a nonprofit company ca...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Market design at Stanford, Fall 2014 (current course materials)

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The URL of the Stanford course on market design that I'm teaching with Muriel Niederle this quarter is too long to fit into the heading...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

The brains of psychopaths (serial killers) and extraordinary altruists (nondirected kidney donors)

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First, the altruists, in PNAS: Neural and cognitive characteristics of extraordinary altruists Abigail A. Marsha,1, Sarah A. Stoycosa, Kr...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Australian discussion of market design

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For some reason, the public discussion of market design in business and government in Australia seems to hit a lot of the right notes, at l...