Monday, July 27, 2015

Roger Doooley interviews me about Who Gets What and Why

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Ep #68: Disrupting Markets with Nobel Winner Al Roth 07-23-2015  |   0 COMMENTS  |   ROGER DOOLEY My guest today on  The Brainfluen...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Ben Hippen on the economics of transplantation and dialysis

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Dr Hippen replies to an earlier article suggesting that incremental changes in current transplant practice could remove the need to radical...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Nash equilibrium: something on which economists agree

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The IGM Forum asks a panel of economists whether they agree or disagree with a given statement. The following statement drew a lot of agre...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Kidney exchange in Turkey, and the state of Turkish transplantation

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Here are two articles from the June issue of Transplantation Proceedings First International Paired Exchange Kidney Transplantation...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Inquiring Minds podcast on Who Gets What and Why

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Here's a podcast about my new book--first quarter hour is devoted to chat between the hosts, and then an interview with me, which sta...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Doctor assisted dying: the debate, and the Dutch experience

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Sangram Kadam points me to two different takes in the ongoing debate on doctor-assisted dying, and whether it should be legalized, and if ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Equilibrium effects: animals that might become extinct if no one eats them

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Not eating animals doesn't always mean there will be more of them: the Livestock Conservancy works to match breeding pairs of endanger...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Who Gets What and Why, in England

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Last Monday, I devoted a day to helping my English publisher sell my book. It has a a slightly different subtitle in England:  Who Gets Wha...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Internships may be unpaid, court rules, if they benefit intern more than employer, and serve an educational purpose

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A class action lawsuit, seeking to make many unpaid internships legally repugnant, has been sent back to a lower court.  The NY Times has t...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

State by state variations in organ donation policy in the U.S. have little effect: JAMA Internal Medicine

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The Effect of State Policies on Organ Donation and Transplantation in the United States   Paula Chatterjee; Atheendar S. Venkataramani ; A...
Friday, July 17, 2015

In France, children born to surrogates become legal, even while surrogacy does not

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The NY Times has the story:  France: Surrogate Children Win Legal Recognition "France’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, on Fr...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

The market share of living languages

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Some very interesting data graphics here (compare Chinese, in all its dialects, and English...first as native languages, and then as langua...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Taiwan moves to criminalize transplant tourism to China

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Taiwan Shuts Down Organ Transplant Tourism, By Jenny Li, Epoch Times | " Taiwan’s Parliament has made amendments to its organ tran...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Critique of the "Swedish model" for sex work laws

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The New Republic published an interesting critique:  The Problem With the "Swedish Model" for Sex Work Laws "Sweden’s land...
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Monday, July 13, 2015

The Economist as Engineer at Exeter, July 14 and 15

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Tomorrow is the conference for which I traveled to England, here's the announcement: Economic Design: The Economist as an Engineer 14...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

I speak at the Bristol Festival of Ideas: Monday July 13

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Here's the announcement : Alvin Roth Who Gets What - And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Cheating in China on (American) college admissions

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Inside Higher Ed has the story:  In China, No Choice But to Cheat? July 9, 2015  By Elizabeth Redden "EUGENE, Ore. ...
Friday, July 10, 2015

NBER workshop on Market Design: call for papers (October 23-24, in Cambridge)

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Mike Ostrovsky and Parag Pathak have announced the following call for papers: From:  Michael Ostrovsky and Parag Pathak To:  NBER Marke...

Maclean's review of Who Gets What and Why

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In Canada, Maclean's Magazine reviews my new book : Marketplaces are everywhere—even in online dating Book review: A look at what m...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

What do employers learn from interviews? Can they be replaced?

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The NY Times had a recent column covering the latest version of this old debate about the informativeness of interviews: ROBO RECRUITING-...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Greece and Iran: two very different deadlines

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Deadlines are often an important element of economic design, from the design of auctions like eBay's, whose auctions have a well specif...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Podcast: Russ Roberts interviews me on EconTalk, about Who Gets What and Why

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  Matching Markets: EconTalk Episode with Alvin Roth--Hosted by Russ Roberts , a one-hour podcast/interview about my new book (which you ca...

Tim Harford reviews Who Gets What and Why in the FT

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Tim Harford's review in the Financial Times is here: In search of the perfect match His closing paragraph: "Economists such as ...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Straw in the wind: Google's Waze is piloting a ridesharing marketplace in Israel

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Ynet has the story: Google's Waze to start carpooling pilot program in Israel Mapping company launching RideWith, which will allow co...

New York City’s high school admissions process: an excerpt from Who Gets What and Why, in Chalkbeat

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Chalkbeat has a brief excerpt from my new book, Who Gets What and Why : Here's the link to what they have to say (or rather what they...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

The lectures of the The 26th Jerusalem School in Economic Theory "Dynamic Games" - 2015, are available on video

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Videos of the lectures are available here: The 26th Jerusalem School in Economic Theory "Dynamic Games" - 2015 The slides a...