Entries by Diego Garcia

What Schools and Students Don’t Know About Each Other

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How hidden information shapes match quality in medical education By Martin B. Hackmann Choosing a school, accepting a job, or even starting a relationship all involve the same challenge: finding the right fit. Yet in many important markets, people make these decisions with incomplete information—and, crucially, the gaps run in both directions. In new research […]

Paper by UCLA Professor Joao Guerreiro Featured in the blog “Slow Boring”

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The paper “Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs,” by UCLA Professor Joao Guerreiro and coauthors Jonathon Hazell, Chen Lian, and Christina Patterson, was recently featured in Matthew Yglesias’s Slow Boring blog. The paper argues that standard measures understate the cost of inflation for workers because they often must take costly actions […]