Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Friday, March 24, 2023

Alcohol and race in Australia

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 In the U.S. we certainly have a complicated history around both race and alcohol, but in Australia there may be even more complications, as...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Australia legalizes medical use of psychedelics

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  Scott Cunningham points out that Australia has become the first country to legalize the medical use of certain psychedelics.  Here's t...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

Australia and England swap millions of vaccine doses

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Barter can increase efficiency. The Financial Times has the story: Australia strikes deal to ‘swap’ 4m vaccine doses with UK   by William La...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

College admissions in Australia, by Guillen, Kesten, Kiefer, and Melatos

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 Here's a working paper from the University of Sydney that looks at the New South Wales college admissions clearinghouse in which studen...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Australia-New Zealand kidney exchange program

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New Zealand and Australia are cooperating with cross-border, international kidney exchange. The Australian has the story: The chain gang...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

An experiment with a blood donor registry in Australia

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Forthcoming in Management Science: Redesigning the Market for Volunteers: A Donor Registry Stephanie A. Heger, Robert Slonim, Ellen Garba...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Harm reduction: quality assurance for illegal drugs in Australia

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The WaPo has the story, from Australia Music festivals are offering to test the safety of people’s drugs and police are increasingly liki...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Australia's parliament reports on organ trafficking

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Australia's parliament has published a report on organ trafficking in Australia. They didn't find much trafficking there, but recom...
Monday, November 5, 2018

The case for compensating Australian plasma donors, by Bob Slonim

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Here's Bob Slonim, explaining the current situation in Australia, of unpaid Australian plasma donors, and big imports of plasma product...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Postdocs in market design at Melbourne

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Alex Nichifor directs my attention to this ad in the JOE : The University of Melbourne Faculty of Business and Economics Centre for...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Medically assisted death debated in Australia

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A bill is under consideration in Australia regarding medically assisted suicide, aka death with dignity.  (The politics are complicated by ...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Death with dignity: David Goodall flies from Australia to Switzerland

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The Australian has the story: Professor David Goodall, 104, prepares to die in Switzerland "Australia’s oldest working scientist an...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Same sex marriage is now legal in Australia

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From the NY Times: Australia Makes Same-Sex Marriage Legal " SYDNEY, Australia — Australia’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly to le...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Surrogacy in Australia

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From the blog Above the Law: A Terrible Ruling Leaves Thousands Of Children Without Legal Parents Even the judge acknowledged that his ru...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Kidney exchange in Aussie TV

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Pablo Guillen watches TV in Sydney, and sent me this link to a show featuring kidney exchange: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/pulse/DR1...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Bob Slonim of Australia

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Here's an announcement from down under, where Bob Slonim  will be heading the Australian Federal government's Behavioural Economi...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Kidney exchange job opportunity in Australia

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If you're a transplant professional following this blog from Australia, maybe this could be of interest: Australian Kidney Exchange ...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Civil servants study market design in Melbourne

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The Centre for Market Design in Melbourne is offering a course leading to a  Specialist Certificate in Economic Design : "Sixty int...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Kidney exchange in Australia--update

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A report from The West Australian on a four-pair exchange includes some stats on kidney exchange in Australia:   Amazing kidney swap surger...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

A non-directed donor kidney exchange chain in Australia

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Here's a heartwarming longish story about a longish kidney exchange chain in Australia: 7 kidney donors, 7 recipients, 6 hospitals, 3 ...