Are Americans meeting life partners online less frequently than in 2017? (Or have the survey questions changed?)
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Stanford economist. I have a market design blog: https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/ Lately I’m interested in #controversial markets
Are Americans meeting life partners online less frequently than in 2017? (Or have the survey questions changed?)
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More to come this week
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Spot the new doctor:)
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Iconoclastic scientists not only do novel science, but they do science in novel ways.
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"Should Universities work together to fend off the administration's attacks on academic freedom and free speech?" is a key question that rank-and-file faculty (i.e., @aaup.org) are answering in the affirmative and University administrators are mostly shrugging off. Time is running out.
03.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 37 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0Designers of overlapping markets can create paradoxical situations.
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I learned about this here on Bluesky.
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Profitable, and addictive. What could go wrong?
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“Consequence insensitivity “ is a big deal in quite a few controversies…
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Maybe this is due to the way it eases childcare.
#econsky #kids
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Sad but true
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Snorting testosterone seems unlikely to become a thing...
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(In)Citeful economists
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The arc of history turns towards technology.
I didn't expect recommendation #2, although I've heard it discussed.
#econsky #medicine #gender
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Trust, plan, and experiment
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Science turns out to be like liberal democracy: imperfect but better than the available alternatives
#econsky #academicsky #science @vaccines
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In these difficult times for science funding, the Golden Goose Award is a reminder of its benefits.
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The paper is here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.15090 and is joint work with the excellent @ncollina.bsky.social , @surbhigoel.bsky.social , Emily Ryu, and Mirah Shi.
19.09.2025 12:12 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Stanford’s B-School has been in business for 100 years. Susan Athey points out Bob Wilson’s influence.
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“Federal officials will for the first time fire one of the organizations responsible for coordinating organ donations in the United States, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Thursday.”
19.09.2025 00:48 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Sport builds characters
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The New Yorker captures the long wait before becoming King.
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Market design is growing fast…
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For dating, some decisions were easier in the dinosaur age: in theory at least, only the man could propose a date, and he paid. But times have changed.
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What’s hot…
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Big time sport and related international crime, with a twist.
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