Wednesday, December 1, 2021

School choice using deferred acceptance algorithms increases competition for selective schools, by Terrier, Pathak and Ren

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 Here's a working paper from the LSE which concludes that making it safe for parents to truthfully report their preferences increases th...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Interview with Ido Erev

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 Here's a short interview with Ido Erev , the great behavioral scientist at the Technion, from whom I learned a lot about learning: Inte...
Monday, November 29, 2021

An experimental study whose participants are compensated donors in the legal Iranian market for kidneys, by Kelishomi and Sgroi

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 A recent working paper from Warwick reports an experiment and survey study whose participants are compensated kidney donors (and prospectiv...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Elements of Choice (Architecture) by Eric Johnson

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Eric Johnson 's new book is about choice architecture, and how when choices are presented in a confusing way, we may make bad decisions....
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Deceased donor sperm recovery and conception

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I guess it's a case of deceased donor transplantation of sorts. Above the Law has the story: Posthumous Conception: It Happens More Ofte...
Friday, November 26, 2021

NRMP Statement On Interviewing

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 The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) has a statement on interviewing, which precedes the NRMP match for new American doctors, and ...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Promoting Quality in Research: the inaugural Einstein Foundation Awards, 2021

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 I had the privilege of being a member of the jury for the Einstein Foundation Awards, which were awarded yesterday for the first time. Here...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Mail order catalogs, downtown department stores, suburban malls, and modern home delivery

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 Here's a 10 minute video in which I discuss how retail markets have changed over the last century and more, with the invention of mail ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

An IVF mixup of babies

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 Here are the stories, from the Guardian, and the NY Times: Guardian: California women gave birth to each other’s babies after IVF mix-up. C...
Monday, November 22, 2021

A naturally occurring deceased-donor-initiated kidney exchange chain, by Maghen and Veale

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  Here's an interesting case report, from the innovative UCLA transplant center, about a kidney exchange chain actually, if not official...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Online and Matching-Based Market Design (forthcoming in 2022), edited by Echenique, Immorlica, and Vazirani

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 What to read in 2022? Here's a teaser... Online and Matching-Based Market Design , forthcoming in 2022 from Cambridge University Press ...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Oocyte ethics: financial compensation for human eggs

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 New ethical guidance on egg donation, following an antitrust settlement regarding price fixing. Financial compensation of oocyte donors: an...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Can it be made safe for drug users to call for help when a friend overdoses?

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There are lots of ways that drug laws contribute to the design of the black market for drugs, and the behavior of its participants. Here'...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Drug overdose deaths between April 2020 and 2021 reach 100,000

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  The Washington Post has the story: 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic   By Dan Keating and Lenny Be...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

John Morgan (1967-2021)

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 Here's his obituary from Berkeley Haas, that I learned of only recently: ‘A giant of a person’: Economist John Morgan dies at 53 OCTOB...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Freakonomics MD on deceased donor organs for transplants

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  Freakonomics MD has a podcast focusing on the scarcity of deceased donor kidneys for transplant, and why recovered organs are sometimes di...
Monday, November 15, 2021

Market design course for health policy and medical students, at Stanford, taught by Alex Chan and Kurt Sweat

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  Starting tomorrow, a short course in market design: BIOS 203, Fall 2021: Market Design and Field Experiments for Health Policy and Medicin...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Nervousness and confusion about residency applications

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  Medpage Today has the story, which has been active on medical twitter for a while--some residency candidates are finding that their applic...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), in Harvard Business Review, by Kaczynski and Kominers

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  Can a new form of property rights created by blockchains also create valuable new kinds of markets? Or even communities?   How NFTs Create...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Blockchain job, with Sven Seuken, at Worldcoin

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  Sven Seuken , a practical market designer for whom I have great respect, writes to ask that I advertise a job for a market designer.  Here...