Friday, November 4, 2022

NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2022, at Stanford, today and tomorrow

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  While I'm away , the NBER Market Design meeting will convene at Stanford today and tomorrow.  The first paper is presented by Alex Cha...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Hervé Moulin is celebrated in Paris

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  I'm in Paris to speak tomorrow at a ceremony and conference in honor of Hervé Moulin .   A focus of the talks will be Moulin's wor...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Managing inter-district school choice, by Yuchiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima

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 Here's a paper that considers inter-district school choice, motivated by Tokyo day care centers.  I think  a similar problem arises in ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Affirmative action at Harvard and elsewhere, by Roland Fryer

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  As the Supreme Court starts to hear arguments about affirmative action in college admissions, at Harvard and the University of North Carol...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Unraveling of the market for new law professors

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  Kim Krawiec , a law professor who is among the most penetrating analysts of controversial markets and market practices, emails me about un...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

2022 Exeter Prize to Sandro Ambuehl, Douglas Bernheim, and Axel Ockenfels

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 Here's an announcement in an email from the Economic Science Association (ESA): "We are happy to announce the winners of the 2022 ...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

The end of anonymous sperm donation...

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 In  Colorado, a new law ending anonymous sperm donation seeks to catch up with the technological developments involving genetic sequencing ...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Surrogacy during wartime in Ukraine

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  Surrogacy goes on amidst the war in Ukraine. The NYT has the story: How Ukraine’s Surrogate Mothers Have Survived the War. When Russia in...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Helping government workers ask for organ donor registration, by House, Lacetera, Macis, and Mazar

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 Market designers can operate at every level of detail. Here's an experiment on promoting organ donor registration: Nudging the Nudger: ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Kidney exchange collaboration between Stanford and APKD

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 I recently had occasion to review the long collaboration between  my Stanford colleagues and  Mike Rees and the Alliance for Paired Kidney ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Josh Morrison profiled in Vox

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  Josh Morrison, the founder of  WaitlistZero  and  1DaySooner , is an unusually energetic and effective effective altruist.    Here's a...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Informationally Simple Incentives by Simon Gleyze and Agathe Pernoud

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  Agathe Pernoud  is on the Economics job market from Stanford this year, and is interested in the properties of information in environments...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Reforming kidney care, by Drs. Ben Hippen and Thao Pascual.

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  Ben Hippen is a transplant nephrologist who I encountered not too long after I started to think about kidney transplants. I've always...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Privacy and data gathered by home devices

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  Does your robot vacuum cleaner make a map of your house as it moves around, and store it on the web?  Could the fact that your kitchen cha...
Friday, October 21, 2022

The past and future of the transition from medical school to residency, in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, by Williamson, Soane, and Carmody

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  The October issue of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education considers the past and future of the transition to residency. The US Reside...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

School choice consulting in New York City

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 It is a truth universally acknowledged that any stressful process in which affluent people participate must be in need of a consulting indu...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Market Design Job Market Candidate Profiles 2023, from ACM SIGecom Exchanges,

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  Market designers come in multiple flavors: economics and computer science are prominently represented. Market Design Job Market Candidate ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

My Morse Lecture at INFORMS 2022, tomorrow

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  Tomorrow, Wednesday October19, from 8-9am Eastern time, I'll be giving the Morse Lecture at the INFORMS 2022 annual meeting in Indiana...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Jacques Drèze (1929-2022)

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Jacques Drèze , the eminent Belgian economist who was the founding director of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Eliciting beliefs is a difficult task: Danz, Vesterlund and Wilson in the AER

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 Experimental economists have long been faced with the difficulty of eliciting coherent beliefs from participants in experiments, even when ...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Kidney exchange in The Times of India

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  The Times of India covers my talk at the Indian Society of Transplantation meeting: Alvin Roth for legal boost to kidney exchange pool in ...