Sunday, March 1, 2015

The End of Privacy: special issue of Science

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Privacy: use it or lose it. Likely to be important both for market design and for civil rights... I haven't yet read this special is...

Performance enhancing drugs in universities

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The Guardian has the story: Students used to take drugs to get high. Now they take them to get higher grades "The use of so-called ...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Legal marijuana in Washington DC?

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Washington DC, the nation's capital, has less local government than most jurisdictions in the U.S., since it isn't a state or part ...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Adultery is no longer illegal in S. Korea--and share price of condom maker soars

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The Guardian has the story just before the court decision...:  South Korean court to rule on making adultery legal "South Korea’s Co...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Kuznets' Nobel Prize medal auction

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The auction of the medal that Simon Kuznets received with his Nobel Prize in Economics in 1971 ended this evening. The auction had a m...
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Doctor-assisted dying in Canada

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The Globe and Mail has the story: Supreme Court rules Canadians have right to doctor-assisted suicide " Canadian adults in grievou...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Is it (always) repugnant for professors to date students?

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Some recent policy decisions at Harvard and Arizona State clarify their position on romantic relationships between professors and students....
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Tomas Sjostrom on the Nobel Economics Prize committee

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The Daily Targum, the student newspaper of Rutgers university, talks to Tomas Sjostrom about his work as a member of the committee that se...
Monday, February 23, 2015

"three parent babies" to cure mitochondrial disease

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The BBC has the story: MPs say yes to three-person babies  (not without controversy): "MPs have voted in favour of the creation of b...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

2014 CME Group - MSRI Prize to Jose Sheinkman

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Congratulations (a bit belated) to Jose Sheinkman  2014 CME Group-MSRI Prize  announced ! The 9 th  annual CME Group-MSRI Prize in Inn...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Comments on the FCC incentive auction

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Peter Cramton writes: Dear Al, Yesterday, I filed at the FCC some research that my team has been working on for some time. It is a g...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Tinder and the new dating game

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Profiles are as old hat as email; the new dating game is about swiping pictures left and right:the NY Times has the story...  Led by Tinder...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

School choice, and the information needed to make good choices

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 Here's a report from CRPE, the Center for Reinventing Public Education Making School Choice Work Series How Parents Experience Publ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Grants are scarce for young scientists: Mike Malone in the WSJ

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The Disappearing Young Scientists:  Grant recipients younger than 36 fell to 3% in 2010, from 18%in 1983. Older scientists now compete for...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Aaron Roth on differential privacy

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Penn News covers a recent presentation: An Introduction to ‘Differential Privacy,’ from Penn Professor Aaron Roth The ability to amas...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Could peeing standing up become repugnant?

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Not yet in Europe, but the question has come up. The BBC has the story: German court rules that men can urinate while standing "A ...

School choice in Detroit?

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The Detroit Free Press has a story on the current debate:  Common enrollment: Lessons for Detroit When preparing to move to Washington, ...