Sunday, September 28, 2025

Remote work and reproduction

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 Here's a recent paper indicating that work from home (WFH) may increase fertility, particularly when both partners in a household work ...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

The effect of biological nudges may (also) have been overstated

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 There have been a number of recent studies suggesting that the effectiveness of psychological "nudges" may have been substantiall...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Citation laureates in Economics: Autor & Katz, Bertrand & Mullainathan, and Bloom

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  Clarivate , the company that now maintains the Web of Science /Science Citation index, annually nominates very well cited economists (and ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Recommendations From the International Society of Uterus Transplantation Ethics Committee

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 The arc of history turns towards technology. I didn't expect recommendation #2, although I've heard it discussed.  Evolving Ethical...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Transplants and trust

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Much of medicine's effectiveness depends on trust, and that is nowhere clearer than in organ transplantation, which depends on organ don...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The Downside of Fertility by Claudia Goldin---Dads versus duds

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 Here's the latest from Claudia Goldin, on dads versus duds.   The Downside of Fertility   by Claudia Goldin, NBER Working Paper 34268, ...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Science and politics: Can you fix science by doing much less of it?

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 Today's NYT has a long opinion piece about (my former Stanford colleague) Jay  Bhattacharya in his role as the new head of the National...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

The 2025 Golden Goose awards

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 In these difficult times for science funding, the Golden Goose Award is a reminder of its benefits.  Here's it's backstory .  Here...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2025, October 17-18, 2025, Cambridge, MA

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  NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2025,  October 17-18, 2025, Cambridge, MA ORGANIZERS Eric Budish, Michael Ostrovsky, and Pa...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Stanford celebrates 100 years of GSB

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 GSB at 100: A Century of Impact , by Michael McDowell  interviews leading faculty members including " Susan Athey:   The GSB has had s...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

All's fair in love and sports, from marathons to stone skipping

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 It turns out that sports are just war by peaceful means. Incentives matter, and some people play to win. First, the WSJ writes about qualif...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Recent good looking market design papers I hope to read (on auctions, unraveling, and interviews)

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There was a time when I could reasonably hope to have read market design papers before they appeared in print, but now there are many fine p...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Who pays for (first) dates?

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 There's matching, and then there's matching with sidepayments.   For dating, some decisions were easier in the dinosaur age: in the...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Where snitches make pitches--Corporate hotlines for ethics violations

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 The WSJ has this story on the business of corporate hotlines for whistleblowers to report potential ethics violations. Sex Scandals. Accoun...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The black market in stolen homing pigeons

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  Below are some excerpts from a long interesting story in the Washington Post, about how a boom in pigeon racing in China led to a rash of ...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

Kidney exchange in Operations Research (and elsewhere)

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 Kidney exchange is an important medical innovation that has given rise to literatures not only in medicine but in economics, computer scien...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Congestion in the job market, AI version

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  The Atlantic has this story on the job market, that contains a nice line... The Job Market Is Hell .  Young people are using ChatGPT to wr...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

How to make a racehorse fast? (a new punchline...)

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  The old punchline is "don't feed him."  The new punchline is "CRISPR." Here's a news story from Nature: First ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Politics and science disagree about drinking and climate change...

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 It turns our that worries about drinking were just as woke about worries about climate change. The NYT has the story on drinking, CBS on cl...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Matching Senators to committees: a(nother) party divide, by Ashutosh Thakur

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 Here's an innovative paper by Ashutosh Thakur that does for legislative matching of senators to committees what the study of matching...