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I join the NRMP board of directors

In the 1990's I worked closely with the NRMP on the resident match, and since then I've bee…

USP celebrates Marilda Sotomayor: “It was like a good dream, in the middle of this nightmare that we are living in”

The JORNAL DA USP, the newspaper of the Universidade de São Paulo, celebrates Marilda Sotomayor on …

Incentive compatibility is not enough: evidence from the Israeli matching market for psychologists, by Hassidim, Romm and Shorrer

While it has taken some time for this paper to be published, I think it was the first to discover t…

Search and matching models of marriage (with emphasis on search or on matching)

Often when economic theorists (particularly matching theorists) speak of "marriage" we do…

Bike matching in NYC

Program Matches Bicycles To Essential Workers Who Need Them In New York  ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: If you&…

John Horton Conway (1937-2020)

John Horton Conway, the  John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computation Mathematics, Emeritu…

The labor force that is the Army

The Army Times has this story: Choose your job: Army offers soldiers career agency to bolster reten…

More proposals for reducing applications and interviews before medical resident matching

If the number of proposals for reform is an indicator of a brewing problem (and I think it is), it&…

Exchanges for single earrings, odd shoes

Here's a NY Times story about what to do if you've lost one of a pair of earrings (and don&…

Matching in Marathi (the language of Maharashtra)

Ashutosh Thakur points out to me this article in the main Maharashtraian newspaper, ''Loksa…

Matching and market design in the latest issue of Theoretical Economics

Theoretical Economics , Volume 14, Number 4 (November 2019) has several articles on matching and ma…

Matching officers to branches at West Point

West Point grads get assignments through new branching system By Brandon OConnor "During a cer…

MIT celebrates Nikhil Agarwal

Optimizing kidney donation and other markets without money MIT economist Nikhil Agarwal analyzes th…

Matching markets @ Simons Institute are multi-disciplinary

Two recent blog posts at the algorithmic game theory blog Turing's Invisible Hand remark on the…

West Point: adopts two sided matching for cadets to military branches

From the Army Times (the links in the story are worth clicking on for related detail): West Point h…

Predicting stable matches from the preferences of one side of the market: Haeringer and Iehlé in AEJ-Micro

Two-Sided Matching with (Almost) One-Sided Preferences By Guillaume Haeringer and Vincent Iehlé Ame…

Matching in Google's internal labor market

Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning have written a Harvard Business School case study called  Matching…

Contracts can be more than salaries: Hassidim, Romm, and Shorrer in EL

Not all matching with contracts is simple: here's a recent paper that helps put that in perspec…

Cadet branch matching satisfies traditional assumptions: Ravi Jagadeesan in AEJ: Micro

Cadet-Branch Matching in a Kelso-Crawford Economy By Ravi Jagadeesan American Economic Journal: Mic…

Congratulations to Yannai Gonczarowski

Yannai Gonczarowski , who will be  a post-doc at Microsoft Research New-England starting this summe…

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