Sunday, September 29, 2019

In Memoriam: Martin Shubik

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Ben Mattison and Kerry DeDomenico at Yale have sent around an email pointing to some brief remembrances of Martin Shubik from his friends, ...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Automatic algorithmic affirmative action, by Ashesh Rambachan and Jonathan Roth

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There's been some justified concern that algorithms that make predictions and choices based on previous choices made by humans might re...
Friday, September 27, 2019

More on the shortage of transplantable kidneys

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Here are some snips from the transcript of the Undark podcast, Solving the Deadly Transplantable Kidney Shortage This month: A penetratin...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Padua Meeting on Economic Design and Institutions, September 27-28

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Here is the web site: Padua Meeting  on  Economic  Design  and  Institutions Invited Speakers: Salvador Barberà (Universitat Autonoma d...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Lost Wages Support for Living Organ Donors Demonstration Project

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HRSA (the Health Resources & Services Administration) has now funded a Lost Wages Support for Living Organ Donors Demonstration Projec...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Algorithms and intelligence at Penn

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From Penn Today: The human driver As the ability to harness the power of artificial intelligence grows, so does the need to consider the ...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Private equity races for young talent even earlier this year

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Eric Budish sends me this pointer to the continued unraveling of the recruiting of young investment bankers into private equity firms: Pr...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

Neil Dorosin and school choice in Brooklyn, in the WSJ

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Neil Dorosin was the director of high school operations for the NY Department of Education, back when Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag Pathak an...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

Reproductive technology and ethical dilemmas: are artificial wombs on the horizon? Will they change the meaning of abortion?

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Assisted reproductive technology (ART) has brought us some modern possibilities that are sometimes viewed as repugnant.  In vitro fertiliza...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Paul Romer thinking about market design via urban planning, at Burning Man

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The NY Times has the story: A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man Amid the desert orgies, Paul Romer investigates a provocative ...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

History job market conference interviews are history

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Inside Higher Ed has the story on the history job market (which they conflate with the AEA's recent decision to try to eliminate interv...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

The Department of Justice opposes limits on early admissions, and other admissions agreements among colleges

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Forbes has the story: The Department Of Justice Aims To Unravel The College Admission Market  Brennan Barnard "Thanks to a two-ye...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

West Point: adopts two sided matching for cadets to military branches

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From the Army Times (the links in the story are worth clicking on for related detail): West Point has changed how cadets are assigned bra...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Platform Markets at the Simons Institute this week (Sept 16-19)

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Here's the workshop schedule: Platform Markets Sep. 16 – Sep. 19, 2019 Monday, September 16th, 2019 1:20 pm – 1:30 pm Opening Re...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

The common app: reduced friction and increased congestion by Knight and Schiff

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Reducing Frictions in College Admissions: Evidence from the Common Application Brian G. Knight ,  Nathan M. Schiff NBER Working Pape...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Game theory in the Handelsblatt

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The German newspaper Handelsblatt has a game theory column: SPIELTHEORIE-KOLUMNE The article at the link is about matching markets, inclu...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Emanuel and Fuchs on health care in the NYT"

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Here it is (four, because six would be too confusing...) Four Key Things You Should Know About Health Care  By Ezekiel J. Emanuel and V...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Surrogacy among religious Jews in Israel

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Surrogacy law is not entirely simple in Israel (e.g. the intended parents must be a heterosexual married couple), but it appears that there...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Golden Goose Awards 2019

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The Golden Goose Award s have been awarded for the 8th time.  Here's an accompanying news story: 2019's Golden Goose Awards Cel...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop at Lancaster, Sept 10

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Here's the announcement for the Sept 10 part of the program at Lancaster, connected with the celebration of Eyal Winter 's chair th...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Evaluating school choice in Chicago isn't simple

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The effects of school choice don't just depend on what school you go to, but also on what other school you could have gone to... Cho...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Andrews and Brunner Lecture at Lancaster University

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Here's an announcement . "Alvin Roth will deliver the inaugural Andrews and Brunner Lecture at Lancaster University on Monday, Se...
Saturday, September 7, 2019

DNA tests are revealing medical misconduct in early sperm donation

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The NY Times has the story, summarizing many recently discovered cases in which fertility doctors used their own sperm in place of other sp...
Friday, September 6, 2019

New York City considers bill to ban foie gras

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Bill aims to ban sale of foie gras in New York restaurants over 'cruel' process If bill passes, anyone violating the law could be...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

Economic Science Association meeting in Dijon, Sept 5-7

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I'm travelling today to join the ongoing 2019 European ESA Meeting in Dijon, France.  Here's the program . I'm going to speak...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Marty Weitzman, 1942-2019

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For many years, Marty and I both had offices on the third floor of the Littauer building at Harvard.  I didn't know him well, but he wa...

Two market design courses at Harvard this semester, by Kominers, and by Akbarpour and Li

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If you are at Harvard this semester, you have two market design classes available: Mohammad Akbarpour (visiting for the quarter from Stan...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Efficiency and Stability in Large Matching Markets, by Che and Tercieux in the JPE

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Efficiency and Stability in Large Matching Markets Yeon-Koo Che Columbia University Olivier Tercieux Paris School of ...
Monday, September 2, 2019

School choice at Chicago Booth

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The University of Chicago's Booth school reviews school choice, with particular attention to Booth scholars: Economics is changing ho...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Alex Azar (Secretary of HH&S) writes about possible new kidney policies

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In the New Hampshire Business Review, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services writes about the recent executive o...