Sunday, September 1, 2019

Alex Azar (Secretary of HH&S) writes about possible new kidney policies

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In the New Hampshire Business Review, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services writes about the recent executive o...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Predicting stable matches from the preferences of one side of the market: Haeringer and Iehlé in AEJ-Micro

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Two-Sided Matching with (Almost) One-Sided Preferences By Guillaume Haeringer and Vincent Iehlé American Economic Journal: Microeconomics...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Kidney donor athlete: Steve

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Kidney donors have to be in excellent health, and the site Kidney Donor Athletes celebrates some exceptional donors, particularly as they ...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Inter-caste marriage as a repugnant transaction in India: a hired hitman and a murdered groom

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In the U.S. we've had long periods where the future of inter-racial and same-sex marriages were in doubt. In India, inter-caste marriag...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Matching in Google's internal labor market

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Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning have written a Harvard Business School case study called  Matching Markets for Googlers Abstract: "...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Game theory post docs at the Technion

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Ido Erev sends the following announcement Post-Doc Positions The Game Theory Group at the Technion is inviting applications for fully f...

Are we discarding too many deceased donor kidneys in the U.S.? A comparison from France, in JAMA

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Here's a recent article from JAMA, that several people have brought to my attention over the last year as it has wended its way to publ...
Monday, August 26, 2019

The Iranian kidney market in Mashhad, by Mehdi Feizi and Tannaz Moeindarbari in Clinical Transplantation

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Here's a new article in Clinical Transplantation: Characteristics of kidney donors and recipients in Iranian kidney market: Evidence ...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Drug wars and drug addiction, black markets and homelessness, in Seattle and elsewhere

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This is the third of three posts on the twin problems of trying to reduce drug addiction and to reduce large-scale incarceration as the pri...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Fighting addiction in Seattle, where incarceration isn't the treatment of choice

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Here's Kristof in yesterday's NY Times: Seattle Has Figured Out How to End the War on Drugs While other cities are jailing drug ...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Clean needle exchange programs may be both helpful and harmful

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Here's a recent NBER working paper that looks at the effects of opening a place where intravenous drug users can get clean needles--it ...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Black market in rosewood

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National Geographic has the story on the trade in endangered rosewood, which pits forest rangers in Guatemala against Chinese furniture mak...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

More chaos in the medical resident interviewing process

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Not only do graduating medical students go on (too) many interviews for residency positions, but the process by which interviews are offere...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Black markets for academic work, not just for homework anymore

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Inside Higher Ed lets you know where you can buy a Ph.D. dissertation...and Clarivate (which publishes the Web of Science) let's you kn...
Monday, August 19, 2019

Paternalism as a motivation for repugnance: Ambuehl, Bernheim and Ockenfels

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When I talk about repugnant transactions, I mean transactions that some people would like to engage in, but others don't think they sho...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Steve Leider celebrated for experimental economics

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This cheerful email came in yesterday: Dear ESA Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that Stephen Leider has been selected as the ...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Poll: majority of Canadians approve of paying plasma donors

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New survey results from Peter Jaworski Canadians think that pay-for-plasma is “morally appropriate.” "A significant majority of Can...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Waitlists in NYC school choice--early reflections on yesterday's initial announcements

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Yesterday the New York City Department of Education announced a change in the school choice assignment process--I gather that after one rou...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

European Job Market for Economists, 2019 (in Rotterdam, Dec. 18-19)

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The European Economic Association has announced that a unified European job market will take place in Rotterdam December 18 and 19. "...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

How is the U.S. opt in system of organ donation doing compared to an opt out system? Alex Glazier and Tom Mone in JAMA

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Alex Glazier and Tom Mone run, respectively, the big Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) in New England and Southern California. Succe...