Friday, July 23, 2021

Matching Foreign Service officers to positions: the labor market at the State Department

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 Many public servants became discouraged during the Trump administration, and those who serve in U.S. Embassies and consulates, and at the S...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Simone Biles in the WSJ. News, sports, ads, endorsements: the money trail is varied and complex:

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 Sports, accomplishment, celebrity, endorsements, modeling:  The WSJ published last week a long article about Simone Biles, the gymnast who ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

INFORMS Workshop on Market Design, July 23-24, 2021

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 Here's the announcement: INFORMS Workshop on Market Design 2021.  July 23-24, 2021 " (in conjunction with the  ACM EC 2021  confer...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Are incentives for vaccination coercive, exploitative, or otherwise unethical? Persad and Emanuel think not, in JAMA

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  Many jurisdictions and venues are now offering incentives for people to be vaccinated against Covid-19.  It will not surprise the readers ...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Surrogacy in Israel: now available to same sex couples (and single fathers)

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 Here's the story from the Washington Post: Israel’s high court opens the way for same-sex couples to have children via surrogacy   By C...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Experiments touching on market design in the July AER

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 The July AER has a number of experiments that speak to market design:  Online, How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Book...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

The race to transact in high frequency trading by Aquilina, Budish, and O'Neill

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 High frequency traders are constantly involved in races to trade on existing bids and asks or to cancel those bids and asks as they become ...
Friday, July 16, 2021

The Power of Market Design, by Paul Milgrom and Silvia Console Battilana in Project Syndicate

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  Paul Milgrom and his business partner Silvia Console Battilana describe how market design can reallocate scarce resources from spectrum ...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Hugo Sonnenschein (1940-2021)

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 A chain of emails originating from U. Chicago brings the news that Hugo Sonnenschein has died. Along with his many accomplishments as an e...

Xenotransplantation is still just around the corner. But maybe it won't always be...

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  Xenotransplantation, e.g.. transplanting pig kidneys into humans, sometimes seems like it is just around the corner and always will be.  B...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Increasing living donor liver transplantation: liver exchange and other options

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 Here's an early online paper from the journal Liver Transplantation. Can living donor liver transplant in the United States reach its p...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory, University of East Anglia, July 15-16

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  Here's the announcement: "Our annual Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory offers leading researchers the opportunity to present cu...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Congestion in transit in supply chains: pipeline inventory

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 The recovery from the pandemic is revealing as many supply issues as the pandemic itself did. Here's an article in Forbes about congest...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

College admissions: Oxford and Cambridge

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  The Financial Times has the story: How Britain’s private schools lost their grip on Oxbridge. As state-school admissions rise at elite uni...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Vouchers in kidney exchange chains: a report of initial experience at NKR

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 Here's a report of the experience with kidney vouchers, pioneered at UCLA and the National Kidney Registry. That's a policy that ha...
Friday, July 9, 2021

Fishery regulation involves onboard observers at sea--a very dangerous job

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 Next time you eat a salt water fish, spare a thought for how fisheries are regulated to keep them viable as a common pool resource.  There ...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

Kidney exchange, arranged the old fashioned way

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 Before the modern organization of kidney exchange developed in the early years of this century, using databases and algorithms, and connect...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

School choice in Austria, by Greiner and Zednik in Die Presse

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  Parents have big strategy sets (and can change the address at which a child is registered) to game the school choice system. In Die Presse...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

An interview in (not on) Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, largely about resident matching

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  For those  readers of this blog who may have missed the May issue of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research , here's an interview ...
Monday, July 5, 2021

NRMP Position Statement On The (In)Feasibility Of An Early Match

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 There has been some suggestion that dividing the resident match into early and late matches might be a way to address the congestion in app...