Sunday, May 24, 2015

Same sex marriage becomes legal in Ireland, by popular vote

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Ancient repugnances can be swept away in a matter of decades, and now it's Ireland's turn. The NY Times has the story:  Ireland Vot...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Ali Hortaçsu talks to the Turkish American Scientists & Scholars Association about market design

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A Conversation with Ali Hortaçsu "Our guest on this issue of The Bridge is Ali Hortacsu, Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Econ...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Mohammad Akbarpour defends his dissertation

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We welcomed a new market designer into the profession today: Dave Kreps, Paul Milgrom, MOHAMMAD AKBARPOUR, Al Roth, Matt Jackson, Amin S...

The market for early book reviews: commercial, crowd sourced, and bootleg

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My book,  Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design  isn't due to be published until June 2.  But the...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Royal Economic Society-York Symposium and Mini-Courses on Game Theory, 21-23 May 2015

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The 2015  RES-York Symposium and Mini-Courses on Game Theory , the 6th of the series of York Annual Symposium on Game Theory,   will be he...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

IIPSC: the Institute for Innovation in Public School Choice

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Over at the Dell Foundation (which funds a lot of work on public school choice), they have a  Q&A on school choice and enrollment: Neil...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Everything for Sale? The Ethics and Economics of Compensation for Body Parts (Video of the panel discussion)

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Here's the video of the panel discussion I participated in at Johns Hopkins on May 7, Everything for Sale? The Ethics and Economics of ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

School Choice: video of an interview I did in Israel

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Here's an interview I did while in Israel in April, mostly about school choice (but also about some of my personal history, game theor...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Public schools and private philanthropy

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Public school budgets are always stretched to their limits, and one of the ways those limits are sometimes surmounted is with an infusion o...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

9th workshop Matching in Practice June 8 - June 9 in Barcelona

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9th workshop Matching in Practice, June 8 - June 9 The program for the 9th workshop of Matching in Practice is up: Scientific Prog...
Friday, May 15, 2015

High Frequency Trading in Santa Cruz today

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Featuring Stanford students Josh Mollner and Markus Baldauf, and open to the public : Market Design: High Frequency Trading Program...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

The Guardian on Iranian kidney sales

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The Guardian reports on a bad outcome in Iran's market for kidneys--the recipient dies, and the donor isn't doing well:  Kidneys fo...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Recent travels...Nigeria

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Nigeria's Daily Independent covers the talk I gave there on Monday: Exchange Programme’ll Improve Kidney Transplant In Africa – ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The State of College Admissions--NACAC report

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed summarizes the NACAC report on college admissions:  3 Key Findings About College Admissions "Here are thr...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Rethinking school competition in Sweden

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There are calls for reforming Sweden's system of competition and school choice among lightly-regulated private schools. The Guardian ha...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

2nd Covenant University – International Conference on African Development Issues – 2015

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I'll speak tomorrow in Nigeria, about kidney exchange and the possibilities it might offer for mutual aid between Africa and the U.S. i...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Harvard Magazine celebrates Sendhil Mullainathan

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The Science of Scarcity  “To put it bluntly,” says Mullainathan, “if I made you poor tomorrow, you’d probably start behaving in many of...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Kidneys in British Columbia: a recommendation for presumed consent, and against compensation for donors

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Kidney Transplant Summit recommends presumed consent legislation to increase organ donation in BC. "BURNABY, BC, May 6, 2015 /CNW/ -...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Everything for Sale? The Ethics and Economics of Compensation for Body Parts, at Johns Hopkins, May 7

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I'm in Baltimore for the next few days... The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business Sch...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Data, big and small

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Alex Peysakhovich  and  Seth Stephens-Davidowitz  write in the NYT about   How Not to Drown in Numbers , about how you can't always int...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Google buys Timeful from Yoav Shoham and Dan Ariely

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Here's Timeful .  Here's Dan . Here's Yoav: This Stanford professor just sold his second startup to Google in less than 5 years...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Ray Fisman to Boston University

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Boston University celebrates their newest senior hire (but the sub-headline in the BU Today story makes you wonder what they think their ot...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Kidney exchange in the NY Times Magazine

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Kidney exchange and public relations sometimes go hand in hand, which isn't a bad thing at all, since the more people who know about ki...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Bay Area Behavioral & Experimental Economics Workshop today in Santa Cruz

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Here's the program: 2015 Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop (BABEEW5) Program  May 2nd 2015, UCSC LEEPS Lab, Baski...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Interviews in the TSEconomist,

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In their March 2015 issue,  The TSEconomist , a magazine published by students at the Toulouse School of Economics, interviews Ken Arrow, m...