alroth.bsky.social
Al Roth
@alroth.bsky.social
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Stanford economist. I have a market design blog: https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/ Lately I’m interested in #controversial markets
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 1d
Are Americans meeting life partners online less frequently than in 2017? (Or have the survey questions changed?)
#econsky #marriage
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Online dating in the US--is it past peak?
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 2d
More to come this week
#econsky #academicsky #nobel
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Guido Imbens reflects on "What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize?
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 3d
Spot the new doctor:)
#academicsky #econsky #phd
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Grace Guan defends her dissertation at Stanford
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 4d
Iconoclastic scientists not only do novel science, but they do science in novel ways.
#academicsky
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Jane Goodall (1934-2025)
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 5d
"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.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 5d
Designers of overlapping markets can create paradoxical situations.
#econsky
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Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 6d
I learned about this here on Bluesky.
#econsky
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Trading cycles for board games
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 8d
Profitable, and addictive. What could go wrong?
#econsky
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In-game sports betting is something different
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 9d
“Consequence insensitivity “ is a big deal in quite a few controversies…
#econsky
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Repugnance and consequence-insensitivity (in connection to opposition to genetically-engineered food)
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Kim Krawiec @kimkrawiec.bsky.social · 10d
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...
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 10d
Maybe this is due to the way it eases childcare.
#econsky #kids
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Remote work and reproduction
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 10d
Sad but true
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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...
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 11d
Snorting testosterone seems unlikely to become a thing...
#econsky #psychology
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The effect of biological nudges may (also) have been overstated
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 12d
(In)Citeful economists
#econsky #academicsky
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Citation laureates in Economics: Autor & Katz, Bertrand & Mullainathan, and Bloom
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 13d
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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Recommendations From the International Society of Uterus Transplantation Ethics Committee
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 14d
Trust, plan, and experiment
#econsky #medicine
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Transplants and trust
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 14d
#econsky
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The Downside of Fertility by Claudia Goldin---Dads versus duds
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 16d
Science turns out to be like liberal democracy: imperfect but better than the available alternatives
#econsky #academicsky #science @vaccines
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Science and politics: Can you fix science by doing much less of it?
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 17d
In these difficult times for science funding, the Golden Goose Award is a reminder of its benefits.

#econsky #academicsky
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The 2025 Golden Goose awards
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 18d
#econsky
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NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2025, October 17-18, 2025, Cambridge, MA
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aaroth.bsky.social
Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 19d
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.
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 19d
Stanford’s B-School has been in business for 100 years. Susan Athey points out Bob Wilson’s influence.
#econsky
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Stanford celebrates 100 years of GSB
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Kim Krawiec @kimkrawiec.bsky.social · 19d
“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.”
Organ Transplant Group Faces Shutdown After Safety Problems
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 19d
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Opinion | Off target
Michael Ramirez cartoon on hate speech and the Constitution.
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 20d
Sport builds characters
#sports
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All's fair in love and sports, from marathons to stone skipping
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