Thursday, July 7, 2022

Coordinating the timing of the market for new Economics Ph.D.s: guidance from the AEA

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 Here's an email broadcast by the American Economic Association, aimed to promote market thickness by avoiding unraveling and dealing wi...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Mark Braverman wins Abacus Medal (formerly Nevanlinna Prize)

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 Mark Braverman , a computer scientist whose work touches on mechanism design, has won the Abacus Medal of the International Mathematical U...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Cops and comedy: repugnant speech

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 The Guardian has a story about comedians who have been accused or charged with violating laws because of their acts. Recent cases involve j...
Monday, July 4, 2022

American data privacy, post Roe

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 As we plunge ahead into the post-Roe era, American laws about abortion are going to be very divided. Some states will seek to criminalize n...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Pregnancy in Poland, a database and anti-abortion laws

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 The Lancet recently reported on new pregnancy data being collected in Poland, and controversy on whether and how it might be used in enforc...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

SCOTUS on dialysis and DaVita

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  The Supreme Court delivered a number of decisions recently, and the news coverage has rightly focused on the decisions that will increase ...
Friday, July 1, 2022

Scott Cunningham's Mixtape Podcast Interview with Alvin Roth

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 Here's Scott Cunningham's Mixtape Podcast Interview with Alvin Roth ... "We discuss Gale and Shapley, Roth and Sotomayor, game...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Same sex marriage in Colorado: then and now

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In 1975, as the county clerk of Boulder County, Cela Rorex issued several marriage licenses to same sex couples, before the State Attorney G...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Medical aid in dying in Italy--a first

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 The NYT has the story: Man Paralyzed 12 Years Ago Becomes Italy’s First Assisted Suicide   By Elisabetta Povoledo "Paralyzed 12 years ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

In defense of online anonymity, by Mike Luca in the WSJ

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Mike Luca writes about anonymity as a feature of market design, in the WSJ: In Defense of Online Anonymity . Lack of transparency on the int...
Monday, June 27, 2022

A Forum on Kidneys for Sale in Iran, in Transplant International

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 Just published in Transplant International  (which is the journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation), is a paper describing...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Dynamic Matching and Queueing Workshop July 5-6, 2022 Paris School of Economics

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Dynamic Matching and Queueing Workshop July 5-6, 2022 Paris School of Economics In Person & Zoom Event    Registration July 5th: 12:00 P...
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...