Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Another mail order catalog throws in the towel (Sic transit gloria mundi .)

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  The mail order catalogs of Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward were as innovative in the late 1800's as Amazon is today, bringing reta...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Designing centralized marketplaces that work gracefully with pre-existing decentralized ones, in Management Science, by Benjamin Roth and Ran Shorrer

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 In Management Science (online ahead of print): Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design ...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Milgrom's "Discovering Prices" reviewed in the JEL by Kominers and Teytelboym

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 In the December Journal of Economic Literature: The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom's Discovering Prices by Sc...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research (apply or nominate now...)

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 Here's the announcement of a new award, for promoting research integrity, reproducibility, and or other elements of research quality. T...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Concerns about remote interviewing for the surgery match

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 I don't doubt that every year people are nervous about the residency Match, and worries this year are related to the special situation ...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Susan Athey wins the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications

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 The seminar is tomorrow, it appears that registration is required. CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications:  Virtual S...

Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines

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 David Warsh, in his weekly  Economic Principals (not a mis-spelling, it's often about economists, and newspapers) writes about Advance...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Top trading cycles (and recollections of New Orleans), in AER:Insights, by Abdulkadiroğlu, Che, Pathak, Roth and Tercieux

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A decade ago I was part of the team that designed the new school choice system for the New Orleans Recovery School District.  On the Distric...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Interfaith marriage under attack in India--"love jihad"

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 The Washington Post has the story: It was never easy being an interfaith couple in India. Now some states are making it harder " Marry...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Officer assignment in the U.S. Army

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In a recent post I discussed the NAS report on the military labor force, focusing on the new Talent Marketplaces, and some of the difficul...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

The international scope of kidney disease

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  During the Covid-19 pandemic we've all become aware of the importance of public messaging--about wearing masks and other behaviors tha...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Marijuana in the House (but not yet in the Senate)

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  The NY Times has the story: House Passes Landmark Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana   By Catie Edmondson, Dec. 4, 2020 "The House passed...
Friday, December 4, 2020

The black market for endangered birds

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Laws that ban markets are sometimes the blueprints for the black markets that arise in the place of legal markets. That turns out to be the ...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Unraveling of neurology fellowships

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  From the journal Neurology : Current controversies in neurology subspecialty education: Insight from clinical neurophysiology   by Heidi M...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Chinese college admissions reform: some consequences, by Yan Chen, Ming Jiang and Onur Kesten in PNAS

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  An empirical evaluation of Chinese college admissions reforms through a natural experiment by Yan Chen, Ming Jiang, and Onur Kesten PNAS ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

The labor market that is the military: a report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

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  I recently served as a member of a National Academies committee on the issues facing the Air Force in managing its human capital, i.e. its...