Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

More on non-anonymous kidney exchange in India

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 Here's some further description of how kidney exchange is conducted in India without authorization* to use nondirected donors (so that ...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Blood donation by family members in India: LGBT donors still banned

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 In India, where the shortage of blood supplies is addressed by having family members donate, the ban on donation by LGBT people is a seriou...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Expanding kidney exchange in India

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 The Ahmedabad Mirror reports on the success of kidney exchange at the Trivedi Institute in that City, and on discussions underway to build ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Stanford Impact Labs announces support for kidney exchange in Brazil, India, and the U.S.

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  Stanford Impact Labs has announced an investment designed to help the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) i ncrease access to kidne...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Cash for kidneys report in the Telegraph

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 The Telegraph has this story, by Samuel Lovett, Nandi Theint,  and Nicola Smith. For some reason I can't copy the headline, but the URL...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

"Professional blood donors" in India (where paying blood donors is illegal)

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  India allows only unpaid blood donation, from altruistic donors or from "replacement donors" who are friends or relations of par...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Organ transplantation in China: in transition--and controversy about paying funeral costs

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  I recently spoke at the CAST transplant conference in Hong Kong (see picture ), and the underlying theme of my talk, and of many talks the...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Kidney Paired Donation in Developing Countries: a Global Perspective

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 Vivek Kute and his colleagues argue that one of the lessons from the developing world is that kidney exchange can save many lives, but may ...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Affirmative action in India

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  Here's an interesting paper by Orhan  Aygün and Bertan Turhan . It comes with something of a backstory, which accounts for its quite d...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

An upside to dowries, by Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, Corinne Low & Alessandra Voena

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  Dowries (like bride prices*) are often criticized, but may have indirect effects that aren't so easy to see, as in this recent NBER pa...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Is an End to Child Marriage within Reach? Not yet... Unicef report, and Lancet summary

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  Unicef has issued the following report focused on the continued prevalence of child marriage, particularly in the poorest communities: Is ...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

NPR on black markets for kidneys from Nepal, for India

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Here's an 8-minute video from National Public Radio about the black market for kidneys, trafficked from Nepal to India.  Some of the peo...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Affirmative action in India--a market design perspective, by Ashutosh Thakur, Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan, and M. Bumin Yenmez

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  The policy portal Ideas for India has an e-symposium on recent developments in affirmative action in India, with an informative introduct...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Paired liver exchange in India

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 Here's a report on 2-way liver exchanges conducted at Max Center for Liver and Biliary Sciences, Max Saket Hospital, New Delhi, India, ...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Kidney exchange in The Times of India

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  The Times of India covers my talk at the Indian Society of Transplantation meeting: Alvin Roth for legal boost to kidney exchange pool in ...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

The Dr H.L. Trivedi Oration at the Indian Society of Transplantation (ISOT) Meeting 2022

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Here's the meeting announcement: ISOT 2022 NAGPUR 32 nd  Annual Conference of The Indian Society of Organ Transplantation 2 nd  Mid-term...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Learning and competition in the lab, in France, and in India

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 Three NBER working papers this week particularly caught my eye: a lab experiment, a natural experiment, and a field experiment. The first i...