Josue Ortega Explained

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 .[13] [14] [15] [16] [17]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ortega's website at Queen's University Belfast. October 31, 2019.
  2. Ortega. Josue. Hergovich. Philipp. 2017-09-29. The Strength of Absent Ties: Social Integration via Online Dating. 1709.10478. physics.soc-ph.
  3. News: There's Now Evidence That Online Dating Causes Stronger, More Diverse Marriages. Burns. Janet. Forbes. 2018-07-02. en.
  4. News: Online dating is leading to more mixed marriages. Editor. Greg Hurst, Social Affairs. 2017-10-17. The Times. 2018-07-02. en. 0140-0460.
  5. News: Online dating may be breaking down society's racial divisions. New Scientist. 2018-07-02. en-US.
  6. News: Scientists think relationships that start online may have a huge advantage over relationships that start in real life. Business Insider Deutschland. 2018-07-02. de.
  7. News: The way strangers meet via dating websites is changing society in unexpected ways, say researchers. Emerging Technology from the arXiv. MIT Technology Review. 2018-07-02. en.
  8. Web site: Dating at university, Online dating, Thinking Allowed - BBC Radio 4. BBC. en-GB. 2018-07-02.
  9. Web site: Professor Herve Moulin's website.. July 2, 2018.
  10. News: Playing Tennis without Envy - IMA. 2016-12-01. IMA. 2018-07-02. en-GB.
  11. Web site: 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. en. 2018-07-02.
  12. Web site: Palgrave Communication's Editorial Board. October 31, 2019.
  13. Ortega. Josué. 2018-10-01. Social integration in two-sided matching markets. Journal of Mathematical Economics. 78. 119–126. 10.1016/j.jmateco.2018.08.003. 0304-4068. 1705.08033. 53547102.
  14. Ortega. Josué. 2019-01-01. The losses from integration in matching markets can be large. Economics Letters. 174. 48–51. 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.10.028. 0165-1765. 1810.10287. 85529476.
  15. Bhardwaj. Bhavook. Kumar. Rajnish. Ortega. Josué. 2020-05-01. Fairness and efficiency in cake-cutting with single-peaked preferences. Economics Letters. en. 190. 109064. 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109064. 0165-1765. 2002.03174. 211069512.
  16. Book: Kyropoulou, Maria; Ortega, Josue; Segal-Halevi, Josue, Josue. Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation . Fair Cake-Cutting in Practice . 547–548. 10.1145/3328526.3329592. 2019. 9781450367929. 1810.08243. 53041563.
  17. Ortega. Josué. 2019-09-15. Equality of opportunity and integration in social networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 530. 121553. 10.1016/j.physa.2019.121553. 2019PhyA..53021553O. 182891799. 0378-4371.