Josue Ortega

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. 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.