Friday, April 14, 2017

A transplant center in India has done 300 kidney exchange transplants

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Here's the article, whose first author is Dr. Vivek Kute, of the Faculty of Nephrology and Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Disease...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Does criminalizing the purchase of sex endanger sex workers?

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A lawyer who is also sex worker brings suit to overturn the law that makes purchasing sex a crime, on the grounds that this endangers prost...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

A bridge of life: Global kidney exchange between Mexico and the U.S.

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Here's the story, by Iván Carrillo: Un puente de vida a través de la tecnología  (and here in English ) Al mismo tiempo que el presid...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Understanding Markets Can Save Lives: Congressional Briefing and Reception, April 18

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The Consortium of Social Science Associations ( COSSA ), of which the American Economic Association is a member, is sponsoring a Congressio...
Monday, April 10, 2017

An unconvincing denial of police murders of gay men in Chechnya

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The Guardian has the story. File this under "unconvincing denials." Chechen police 'have rounded up more than 100 suspected...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

College admissions in Denmark

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There is a centralized college admissions system in Denmark, the KOT: How to apply for a higher education programme in Denmark Here...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

School choice: the difference between common application and unified enrollment

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 Joe Siedlecki of the Dell Foundation writes about school choice, with an emphasis on unified enrollment. (All of the unified enrollment sy...
Friday, April 7, 2017

The Brookings school choice index

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Brookings has released their school choice index: The 2016 Education and Choice Competition Index Denver won the top spot for large dis...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Thank a scientist: ad campaign from National Academy of Sciences

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Series Update: From Research to Reward From Research to Reward , the NAS series of articles and videos about the human benef...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Top Trading Cycle algorithms in School Choice

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Here is some theory of top trading cycles, together with our experience from school choice in New Orleans. And here: Minimizing Justifi...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Interview in La Vanguardia

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When I was in Barcelona I was interviewed by Lluis Amiguet for La Vanguardia: Alvin Roth, premio Nobel de Economía, presidente de la Asoc...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Julio Rotemberg (1953-2017)

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An email from Nitin Nohria at HBS brings the sad news that Ju lio Rotemberg passed away this weekend after his long struggle with cancer. ...
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Surrogacy (and transplantation) in Spain

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The Director of Spain's National Transplant Organization has an article comparing transplants to surrogacy (presently illegal in Spain)...
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Sunday, April 2, 2017

The Central European University is worth defending from government pressure

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The Central European University  in Budapest is in danger of being forced to shut down. World’s leading economists ask Hungary to withdra...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Headlines that could have run on April 1

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What was he thinking? Plane passenger stopped at Stansted with iPhone case shaped like a gun *********** Pretender to France...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics celebrates its 10th anniversary

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The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics is 10! There are a number of events and workshops . The main celebration of this...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Market design and kidney exchange at the Royal Academy of Economics and Finance in Barcelona

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I'll speak at and become a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Economics and Finance (RACEF), in Barcelona this evening. El Nobel ...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Kidney exchange, in Spanish, from the BBC

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Alvin Roth, el premio Nobel de economía que sin buscarlo acabó salvando miles de vidas, Redacción BBC Mundo 14 marzo 2017 G translate (fr...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

I speak about school choice at The Economic Club of Indiana

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I'll speak in Indianapolis about Market Design and Unified Enrollment School Choice. Dr. Alvin Roth, Stanford University and Nobel P...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Columbia U. Economic Theory Workshop today: Stable matching in centralized and decentralized markets

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I'll speak at Columbia today, partly on a paper with Qingyun Wu, and partly on the larger question of why stable matching mechanisms se...