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Alvin Roth exposes his work on “disgusting markets” at the European Meeting of the ESA (Economic Science Association) on 7 September in Dijon, France. Lessac/BSB

September 24, 2019

How economics can help save lives: a conversation with Alvin Roth, 2012 Nobel Prize laureate

Leighton Kille, The Conversation and Thibault Lieurade, The Conversation

Stanford professor’s research has led to an increase in the number of kidney transplants in the United States.

Federal and state agencies are using powerful automated data-matching programs to identify properties that are generating income and might be liable for tax. from www.shutterstock.com

January 23, 2017

Airbnb hosts beware – it’s not just Centrelink using robo‑debt systems

Brendan Gogarty, University of Tasmania and Lynden Griggs, University of Tasmania

State revenue offices are using data matching to identify people who earn income from Airbnb, then sending notices that they may be liable for land tax, even though this remains a legal grey area.

A blockchain could be used to record all of our interactions with the government. Shutterstock

January 13, 2017

Centrelink data‑matching problems show the need for a government blockchain

Christine Helliar, University of South Australia

The problems with Centrelink’s data-matching system stem from reconciling datasets held by different agencies. What if we used a blockchain to create a single source of data?

The Commonwealth Ombudsman will investigate Centrelink’s automated debt-recovery system. AAP/Dan Peled

January 9, 2017

Why Centrelink should adopt a light touch when data matching

Helen Hodgson, Curtin University

Centrelink’s debt recovery system is using information in a way that it was not designed to be applied, without properly adjusting for differences between the tax and social security system.

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