Friday, November 3, 2023

Jobs for economists, so far this year

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Here's a preliminary AEA memo on the job market . "To: Members of the American Economic Association  From: AEA Committee on the Job...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Jury Finds Realtors Conspired to Keep Commissions High

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 One of the puzzles of the internet age, when you can take house tours remotely, and see house listings online, is how real estate agents ha...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The broken market for antibiotics, continued

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  Not only is the market for new antibiotics broken, companies that explore them are going broke. Here's a story from the WSJ: The World...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

US halts export of most civilian firearms and ammunition for 90 days.

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One of many things that makes the U.S. unusual is the Constitutionally protected status of gun ownership and gun sales here.  Guns being gun...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Simple Proofs of Important Results in Market Design-- (video of my talk at Berkeley's Simons Institute)

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Here's a video of the talk I gave on Friday at the Simons Institute, on simple proofs of important theorems about matching, that have ha...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Transcript withholding by colleges and universities to be regulated

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  Inside Higher Ed has the story: U.S. Bans Most Withholding of Transcripts. The Education Department strengthens its oversight of instituti...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Magic mushrooms as therapy

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 The legal use of psychedelics in therapy is growing. The NYT has the story: A New Era of Psychedelics in Oregon . The state has pioneered a...
Friday, October 27, 2023

HBS Dean Datar's statement about Hamas, Gaza, and antisemitism on campus

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During World War II, many anti-Nazi people of good will  might have been disturbed by the firebombing of Dresden (sometimes said to be in re...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Online and Matching-Based Market Design, Simons Institute, Berkeley. Oct. 26 – , Oct. 27,

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  To celebrate the book of the same name , the Simons Institute is hosting a conference today and tomorrow on Online and Matching-Based Mark...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Why living kidney donors in England should be financially compensated

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 Here's an article suggesting why England should pilot a program to compensate kidney donors.  Perhaps the argument is generalizable to ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Scientists deliberately gave women Zika--challenge trials for diseases whose incidence has dropped too far for conventional clinical trials

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 Nature has the story (despite the somewhat inflammatory headline). Scientists deliberately gave women Zika — here’s why. ‘Human challenge’...