Josue Ortega (academic)

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]}

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. Hurst, Greg (17 October 2017). "Online dating is leading to more mixed marriages". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 2 July 2018.
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.
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.