Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Redesigning the US Army's Branching Process, by Kyle Greenberg, Parag A. Pathak & Tayfun Sönmez,

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  Here's a new NBER working paper that marks a significant step forward in matching soldiers to positions. Mechanism Design meets Priori...

Crisis in Catalonia, and Andreu Mas-Colell

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  Catalonia's crisis has been in the news again, with different parts of the Spanish government taking different views about reconciliat...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Repugnance to high incentives, by Robert Stüber

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Here's a paper that seeks to understand why some transactions are permitted when only low incentives are offered, but banned when high i...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Blame shifting in methane emission and climate change

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  Luke Coffman  had a paper in 2011 reporting an experiment in which a participant had an opportunity to play a dictator game with a second ...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

It's time to explore compensation for kidney donors: Dr. Arthur Matas in JAMA Surgery

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  Dr Arthur Mata s, the distinguished surgeon who directs the renal transplant program at the University of Minnesota, is tired of seeing hi...
Friday, June 11, 2021

Governments should buy kidneys, in Journal of Applied Philosophy

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 Philosophers argue differently than economists do, but can sometimes reach similar conclusions.  And (like economists) philosophers can som...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Congestion in applications and interviews, by Arnosti, Johari and Kanoria

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  Here's a paper modeling the issue that some labor markets may face congestion related to large numbers of applications followed by cos...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Congestion in interviews for pediatric surgery fellowships

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  In recent years, pediatric surgery has been a very popular subspecialty among Stanford surgical residents (upon completion of their 5 year...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Matching Teach For America Teachers to Schools, by Jonathan Davis

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Some years ago Clayton Featherstone and I worked with Teach for America to design their process for matching new recruits to school distric...
Monday, June 7, 2021

Help for Danish kidney-exchange pairs, from a private foundation (while waiting for the health care system to cover international exchange)

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 Yesterday I blogged about a particular global kidney exchange in which a Danish pair joined an American kidney exchange chain . Among the o...
Sunday, June 6, 2021

Global kidney exchange with Denmark, in the U.S.

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A Danish citizen with a willing but incompatible living donor, received a kidney exchange transplant in the U.S., through the Alliance for ...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

It's time to allow kidney exchange in Germany: Axel Ockenfels in the Handelsblatt

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  As I noted last month, there's a conclave on kidney transplantation at the end of June in Germany. Axel Ockenfels keeps the focus on ...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Advice for setting up a kidney exchange program

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 Advice from Italian doctors, on living kidney donation including kidney exchange, in the one year old journal Transplantology : Living Kid...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Realtors still have a few tricks up their sleeves--"Whisper listings"

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 It once looked as if the growth of the internet, and increased access to home listing databases, would substantially weaken the grip of lic...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Strategic issues with (combined) early and late matching, by Mumcu and Saglam

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   Here's a paper on early decision in college admissions. I read it with particular interest because of related discussions going on ri...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Domestic and foreign medical residents in the U.S.

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 From the Health Affairs blog: Graduate Medical Education Positions And Physician Supply Continue To Increase: Implications Of The 2021 Resi...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Covid vaccine congestion in France looks familiar

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France is some weeks behind the U.S. in delivering vaccines, but the script will look familiar to Americans. The  Financial Times has the st...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Vaccinating the whole world quickly turns out to be hard

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  As Covid vaccines became available, rich countries that had made early, advanced purchases at high prices had contracts that delivered ava...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21), Oct. 5-9 2021

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  "The inaugural ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21) aims to highlight work whe...
Friday, May 28, 2021

Kidney to Share book launch, Zoom recording

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  Last week I had the pleasure of joining the discussion of the book Kidney to Share   by Martha Gurshun & John Lantos.  It was on Zoom,...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Alejandro Martínez-Marquina defends his dissertation

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  Alejandro Martínez-Marquina defended his dissertation this week.   The three papers he chose for his dissertation are these: When a Town ...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

The internet hybrid of pornography and sex work on OnlyFans

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 Sex work is mostly  about in-person, one-on-one, personal encounters.  Pornography is mostly about publishing, whether in print or other me...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Payments for Covid vaccine

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 The NY Times has the story: Pakistan’s Private Vaccine Sales Highlight Rich-Poor Divide.  An inoculation push, plagued with limited supplie...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Transplantation across ethnic divisions in Israel

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  Transplantation sometimes makes for complicated stories. Kidney from Jew killed in mob violence goes to Arab woman.   By Hadas Gold and Mi...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

The black market in cactus

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 The NY Times has the story: Global Cactus Traffickers Are Cleaning Out the Deserts.  A recent raid in Italy involving rare Chilean species ...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

School choice in Sweden (and in Swedish), by Andersson and Roth

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  Tommy Andersson and I wade into the school choice debate in Sweden in the Dagens Samhalle, arguing in favor of unified enrollment and the ...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Journal of controversial ideas

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  Some ideas are controversial not just because some people think they are bad ideas, but because they think that they are the kinds of ide...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Payday loans: usury, or access to credit? by Allcott, Kim, Taubinsky and Zinman

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Payday loans and other expensive services to those without access to formal credit generate a good deal of repugnance and regulation (includ...