Wednesday, April 19, 2017

National Kidney Foundation: 2017 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM17) in Orlando

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Here's the  Welcome letter from the 2017 Program Chair, Dr. Dena Rifkin "Be sure to join us on Wednesday April 19th for the spec...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Assisted dying appeal to be heard in Britain

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The Guardian has the story Assisted dying Terminally ill former lecturer wins right to fight assisted dying ba n Appeal court reverses ...
Monday, April 17, 2017

A non-directed kidney donor writes eloquently about his experience

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Dylan Matthews is eloquent about his decision to give a kidney to a stranger, and explicit about his experience, including post-surgical pa...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017

Doctors harvesting organs from Canadian patients who underwent medically assisted death

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The National Post has the story: Doctors harvesting organs from Canadian patients who underwent medically assisted death "Doctors h...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good June 26, 2017 at MIT in Cambridge, MA

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Social good, what's not to like? Here's the announcement: Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good June 26, 2017 at MIT in C...
Friday, April 14, 2017

A transplant center in India has done 300 kidney exchange transplants

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Here's the article, whose first author is Dr. Vivek Kute, of the Faculty of Nephrology and Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Disease...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Does criminalizing the purchase of sex endanger sex workers?

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A lawyer who is also sex worker brings suit to overturn the law that makes purchasing sex a crime, on the grounds that this endangers prost...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

A bridge of life: Global kidney exchange between Mexico and the U.S.

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Here's the story, by Iván Carrillo: Un puente de vida a través de la tecnología  (and here in English ) Al mismo tiempo que el presid...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Understanding Markets Can Save Lives: Congressional Briefing and Reception, April 18

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The Consortium of Social Science Associations ( COSSA ), of which the American Economic Association is a member, is sponsoring a Congressio...
Monday, April 10, 2017

An unconvincing denial of police murders of gay men in Chechnya

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The Guardian has the story. File this under "unconvincing denials." Chechen police 'have rounded up more than 100 suspected...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

College admissions in Denmark

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There is a centralized college admissions system in Denmark, the KOT: How to apply for a higher education programme in Denmark Here'...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

School choice: the difference between common application and unified enrollment

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 Joe Siedlecki of the Dell Foundation writes about school choice, with an emphasis on unified enrollment. (All of the unified enrollment sy...
Friday, April 7, 2017

The Brookings school choice index

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Brookings has released their school choice index: The 2016 Education and Choice Competition Index Denver won the top spot for large dis...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Thank a scientist: ad campaign from National Academy of Sciences

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Series Update: From Research to Reward From Research to Reward , the NAS series of articles and videos about the human benef...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Top Trading Cycle algorithms in School Choice

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Here is some theory of top trading cycles, together with our experience from school choice in New Orleans. And here: Minimizing Justifi...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Interview in La Vanguardia

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When I was in Barcelona I was interviewed by Lluis Amiguet for La Vanguardia: Alvin Roth, premio Nobel de Economía, presidente de la Asoc...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Julio Rotemberg (1953-2017)

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An email from Nitin Nohria at HBS brings the sad news that Ju lio Rotemberg passed away this weekend after his long struggle with cancer. ...
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Surrogacy (and transplantation) in Spain

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The Director of Spain's National Transplant Organization has an article comparing transplants to surrogacy (presently illegal in Spain)...
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Sunday, April 2, 2017

The Central European University is worth defending from government pressure

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The Central European University  in Budapest is in danger of being forced to shut down. World’s leading economists ask Hungary to withdra...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Headlines that could have run on April 1

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What was he thinking? Plane passenger stopped at Stansted with iPhone case shaped like a gun *********** Pretender to France&...