Josue Ortega

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Josue Ortega is a British academic and lecturer in economics at Queen's University Belfast. [1] He is the author of a controversial article that suggests that the emergence of online dating has caused an increase in the number of interracial marriages in the US. [2] Ortega's findings have been covered by international media, including Forbes , [3] the Times , [4] New Scientist , [5] Business Insider [6] and the MIT Technology Review . [7] Ortega has been interviewed by Thinking Allowed at BBC Radio 4. [8]

Ortega obtained his PhD at the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School under the supervision of Professor Hervé Moulin. [9] He received the Catherine Richards prize by the UK Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in 2016. [10] [11] He sits in the editorial board of Palgrave Communications [12] and has published his research in the Journal of Mathematical Economics, the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Economics Letters and Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]

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References

  1. ↑ "Ortega's website at Queen's University Belfast". 31 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Ortega, Josue; Hergovich, Philipp (29 September 2017). "The Strength of Absent Ties: Social Integration via Online Dating". arXiv: 1709.10478 [physics.soc-ph].
  3. ↑ Burns, Janet. "There's Now Evidence That Online Dating Causes Stronger, More Diverse Marriages". Forbes. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  4. ↑ Editor, Greg Hurst, Social Affairs (17 October 2017). "Online dating is leading to more mixed marriages". The Times. ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 2 July 2018.{{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Online dating may be breaking down society's racial divisions". New Scientist. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Scientists think relationships that start online may have a huge advantage over relationships that start in real life". Business Insider Deutschland (in German). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Emerging Technology from the arXiv. "The way strangers meet via dating websites is changing society in unexpected ways, say researchers". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Dating at university, Online dating, Thinking Allowed - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  9. ↑ "Professor Herve Moulin's website". 2 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Playing Tennis without Envy - IMA". IMA. 1 December 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "University of Glasgow - Schools - Adam Smith Business School - News and events - News archive - 2016 - PhD student awarded IMA Catherine Richards Prize". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  12. ↑ "Palgrave Communication's Editorial Board". 31 October 2019.
  13. ↑ Ortega, Josué (1 October 2018). "Social integration in two-sided matching markets". Journal of Mathematical Economics. 78: 119–126. arXiv: 1705.08033 . doi:10.1016/j.jmateco.2018.08.003. ISSN   0304-4068. S2CID   53547102.
  14. ↑ Ortega, Josué (1 January 2019). "The losses from integration in matching markets can be large". Economics Letters. 174: 48–51. arXiv: 1810.10287 . doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2018.10.028. ISSN   0165-1765. S2CID   85529476.
  15. ↑ Bhardwaj, Bhavook; Kumar, Rajnish; Ortega, Josué (1 May 2020). "Fairness and efficiency in cake-cutting with single-peaked preferences". Economics Letters. 190: 109064. arXiv: 2002.03174 . doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109064. ISSN   0165-1765. S2CID   211069512.
  16. ↑ Kyropoulou, Maria; Ortega, Josue; Segal-Halevi, Josue, Josue (2019). "Fair Cake-Cutting in Practice". Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. pp. 547–548. arXiv: 1810.08243 . doi:10.1145/3328526.3329592. ISBN   9781450367929. S2CID   53041563.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ↑ Ortega, Josué (15 September 2019). "Equality of opportunity and integration in social networks". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 530: 121553. Bibcode:2019PhyA..53021553O. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.121553. ISSN   0378-4371. S2CID   182891799.


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