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Al Roth

@alroth.bsky.social

Stanford economist. I have a market design blog: https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/ Lately I’m interested in #controversial markets

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Online dating in the US--is it past peak?

Are Americans meeting life partners online less frequently than in 2017? (Or have the survey questions changed?)
#econsky #marriage
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07.10.2025 14:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guido Imbens reflects on "What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize?

More to come this week
#econsky #academicsky #nobel
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/guid...

06.10.2025 13:06 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Grace Guan defends her dissertation at Stanford

Spot the new doctor:)
#academicsky #econsky #phd
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/grac...

05.10.2025 12:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

Iconoclastic scientists not only do novel science, but they do science in novel ways.
#academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/jane...

04.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

"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    📌 0
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Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

Designers of overlapping markets can create paradoxical situations.
#econsky
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03.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Trading cycles for board games

I learned about this here on Bluesky.
#econsky
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01.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
In-game sports betting is something different

Profitable, and addictive. What could go wrong?
#econsky
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30.09.2025 14:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Repugnance and consequence-insensitivity (in connection to opposition to genetically-engineered food)

“Consequence insensitivity “ is a big deal in quite a few controversies…
#econsky
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29.09.2025 13:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Markets In Organs: Controversy and Contention The volume, Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention, edited By James Stacey Taylor and Mark J. Cherry, is now available for pre-order from Routledge. From the publisher...
28.09.2025 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Remote work and reproduction

Maybe this is due to the way it eases childcare.
#econsky #kids
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/remo...

28.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...

Sad but true
www.politico.com/gallery/2025...

27.09.2025 20:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The effect of biological nudges may (also) have been overstated

Snorting testosterone seems unlikely to become a thing...
#econsky #psychology
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

27.09.2025 16:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Citation laureates in Economics: Autor & Katz, Bertrand & Mullainathan, and Bloom

(In)Citeful economists
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/cita...

26.09.2025 12:44 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Recommendations From the International Society of Uterus Transplantation Ethics Committee

The arc of history turns towards technology.
I didn't expect recommendation #2, although I've heard it discussed.
#econsky #medicine #gender
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/reco...

25.09.2025 14:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Transplants and trust

Trust, plan, and experiment
#econsky #medicine
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/tran...

24.09.2025 13:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Downside of Fertility by Claudia Goldin---Dads versus duds

#econsky
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24.09.2025 03:09 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
Science and politics: Can you fix science by doing much less of it?

Science turns out to be like liberal democracy: imperfect but better than the available alternatives
#econsky #academicsky #science @vaccines
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/scin...

22.09.2025 13:08 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
The 2025 Golden Goose awards

In these difficult times for science funding, the Golden Goose Award is a reminder of its benefits.

#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

21.09.2025 10:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2025, October 17-18, 2025, Cambridge, MA

#econsky
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20.09.2025 10:04 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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    📌 0
Stanford celebrates 100 years of GSB

Stanford’s B-School has been in business for 100 years. Susan Athey points out Bob Wilson’s influence.
#econsky
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19.09.2025 10:01 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Organ Transplant Group Faces Shutdown After Safety Problems

“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    📌 0
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Opinion | Off target Michael Ramirez cartoon on hate speech and the Constitution.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

18.09.2025 22:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
All's fair in love and sports, from marathons to stone skipping

Sport builds characters
#sports
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18.09.2025 10:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The New Yorker captures the long wait before becoming King.
media.newyorker.com/cartoons/68c...

17.09.2025 21:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Recent good looking market design papers I hope to read (on auctions, unraveling, and interviews) I'll post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See also my Stanford profile. I have a general-interest book on market design: Who Gets What--and Why The subtitle is "The new economics of matchmaking and market design."

Market design is growing fast…
#econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/rece...

17.09.2025 12:04 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Who pays for (first) dates?

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.
#econsky
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16.09.2025 10:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Where snitches make pitches--Corporate hotlines for ethics violations

What’s hot…
#econsky #law
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...

15.09.2025 12:47 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
The black market in stolen homing pigeons

Big time sport and related international crime, with a twist.
#econsky #crime
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

14.09.2025 12:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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