Saturday, June 25, 2022

San Francisco's Lowell High School admissions will return to merit-based system

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 The SF Chronicle has the latest twist in this involved story over San Francisco's elite Lowell High School. Lowell High School admissio...
Friday, June 24, 2022

New York City school choice: increased use of lotteries in the news

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The recent emphasis on lotteries in NYC school choice is discussed in the NY Times: N.Y.C. Tried to Fix High School Admissions. Some Parents...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

School Choice in Chile

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 Here's a recent report on the implementation of centralized school choice in Chile. School Choice in Chile  by Jos é  Correa, Natalie E...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Russian Journalist’s Nobel Medal Sells for $103.5 Million, with proceeds to UNICEF for Ukrainian refugees.

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 The NYT has the story: it exemplifies quite a number of things (including jump bidding in a reserve price charity auction...) Russian Journ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Japanese court upholds ban on same sex marriage

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 The Japan Times has the story: In LGBTQ rights setback, Japan court says barring same-sex marriage not unconstitutional     June 20, 2022 ...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Report of a SARS-CoV-2 human challenge trial. In Britain.

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  The May issue of Nature Medicine reports what I am pretty sure was the first covid challenge trial . It was a small one, designed to trac...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Unraveling of MBA recruitment

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 The WSJ has the story: Some M.B.A.s Are Getting Job Offers Before They Step Onto Campus . Early recruiting—before students and prospective ...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design July 11th to 15th, 2022 National U. of Singapore, online.

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 Here's the announcement: 2022 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design July 11th to 15th, 2022  Department of Economics, Nationa...
Friday, June 17, 2022

ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’22), June 28th through July 15th

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  Nicole Immorlica sends this announcement: The Twenty-Third ACM Conference on Economics and Computation ( EC’22 ) is taking place virtual...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Behavioral economics and market design are quite different -- Nick Chater and George Loewenstein reflect

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 Experimental economics is one of the empirical foundations of what we now call behavioral economics.  Market design sometimes depends on ex...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

An unusual Argentine presidential candidate supports a monetary market for kidneys

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 The right-wing Argentine politician,  Javier Milei, who describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist (but who the Washington Post thinks has ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

MR on repugnance for compensating blood donors, carried to an absurd conclusion

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  Alex Tabarrock had a great post at MR the other day, via Peter Jaworski , called A Bloody Waste . Here's how it began: A Bloody Waste ...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Price gouging laws are unpopular with economists

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 Chicago Booth's Initiative on Global Markets recently polled their panel of academic economists in the U.S. on whether a new law banni...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Who Benefits from Meritocracy? by Diana Moreira & Santiago Pérez

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 Exams for U.S. civil service positions apparently started for some positions in 1883, and here's an NBER working paper that looks at th...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Harm reduction for drugs: an experiment in British Columbia

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  Here's a news story in the Guardian, and the policy paper from British Columbia about the new efforts on harm reduction there. Canada ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Congratulations to Arthur Lee, on receiving the Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis

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Arthur Lee received the Economics Department's Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis yesterday, for his thesis on school ...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

What are (swim) tests for?

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  Tests serve multiple purposes, they can be to screen, to certify, to incentivize.  In recent years we have seen concern about tests' d...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

What might the assisted reproduction gray market look like, post Roe?

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 Yesterday I blogged about what might happen to the availability of abortion if it's constitutional protection is reversed so that indi...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

What might the abortion gray market look like, post Roe?

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 My favorite psychiatrist points out that, before abortions became generally legal except when the woman's life was at risk, psychiatris...
Monday, June 6, 2022

The return of convalescent plasma as a treatment for Covid

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  As evidence accumulates, it appears that convalescent plasma helps some patients with Covid.  Here's an article from Medpage COVID Con...