Saturday, April 22, 2023

Strategy-proofness in Berlin in July

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 "The WZB is planning an international conference on matching markets “Matching Market Design: Strategy-Proofness and Beyond” held as a...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Transition from medical school to residency: defending the parts that work well (namely the NRMP Resident Match)

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This post is about a recently published paper concerning the design of the market for new doctors in the U.S.  But it will require some back...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Workshop on Experimental Economics and Entrepreneurship: call for papers

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 Nico Lacetera writes: We are happy to announce the  Third Workshop on Experimental Economics and Entrepreneurship , sponsored by the Belk ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Transplantation: progress and continued shortcomings

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 Here's a guest essay from the NYT that focuses on a different set of shortcomings of organ transplantation than organ availability. The...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) at 75

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 An editorial in Nature considers the complicated history of  the World Health Organization.  The WHO at 75: what doesn’t kill you makes you...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Discriminatory quotas in admissions to universities and graduate schools (and some black humor from my father's generation)

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 History doesn't exactly repeat itself, but it rhymes. (Mark Twain apparently missed the opportunity often attributed to him of saying t...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

The (American) market for assault rifles

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There was a time when Americans thought that rifles were for hunting game, and assault weapons were banned.  That has changed. The Washingto...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Jobs at risk from AI chatbots

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 The WSJ has the alarming news: The Fortune Cookie Industry Is in Upheaval. ‘Expect Big Changes Ahead.’ Factories split over whether to use ...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Kidney transplants from donors who died from illegal drug use

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 There was a time when the modal deceased kidney donor had suffered a head injury in an auto accident, but that time is long gone, due to in...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Brain Death

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  Before there was the possibility of organ transplantation, determining that someone was dead could be a relatively leisurely affair. But t...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Mega-Journals and scientific publishing

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  Academic publishing is getting more varied. A recent article in JAMA focuses on the rise of 'mega-journals,' which seek to publish...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Experiments and market design, video (I'm interviewed by Chiara Spina from INSEAD)

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Professor Chiara Spina interviewed me about the use of experiments in market design (20 minute video). (We spoke about a number of experime...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Comstockery and abortifacients, on the way to the Supreme Court

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 The Comstock Act of 1873 made it a Federal crime to distribute information or medicines for contraception or abortion, and more generally o...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Alcoholic beverage distributors

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  The FCC investigates and regulates not just the industries we all know about, but also industries that quietly do a lot of the heavy lifti...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Markets in human milk, placenta, and feces

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I've blogged earlier about markets for breast milk, but here is an article that considers them also in connection with placenta and fece...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Surrogacy in Spain is hard to suppress

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  In a widely reported story, a Spanish celebrity has become the surrogate mother of her grandchild, with the help of sperm from her decease...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Introductory workshops to the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design semester at Berkeley MSRI

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  The semester of  Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design August 21, 2023 to December 20, 2023 at Berkeley will le...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Surrogacy under siege in Italy

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 Opposition to surrogacy in Italy has taken aim at the babies of same sex couples. The NYT has the story: Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Iss...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

The Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture for 2023 at BU, by Parag Pathak

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 Parag Pathak gave this year's Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture at Boston University. The title of his talk is “Still Worth the Trip? ...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Test of Time Award 2023 to Immorlica & Mahdian, and Ashlagi, Kanoria & Leshno

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 Matching theory is recognized this year for bringing theory and observation into harmony... The SigEcom Test of Time Award for 2023 , ...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Blue water, green water and climate change

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 Much of the discussion of redesigning the markets for water focus on "blue water," i.e. surface water in rivers and lakes, and ru...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Headlines that could have appeared on April 1

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 Grim news largely crowded out funny news this past 12 months, but not completely (and some grim news is also funny). National Park Service ...