Recent articles on kidney exchange

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Kidney paired donation: principles, protocols and programs

1. Paolo Ferrari1,2,3,*, 
2. Willem Weimar4,5, 
3. Rachel J. Johnson6, 
4. Wai H. Lim2,7and 
5. Kathryn J. Tinckam8,9
6. 1. Nephrol. Dial. Transplant.(2014)doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfu309First published online:October 7, 2014

-Author Affiliations

1. ¹Department of Nephrology, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2. ²School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
3. ³Organ and Tissue Authority, Canberra, ACT, Australia
4. ⁴Department of Internal Medicine and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
5. ⁵Dutch Transplant Foundation, Leiden, The Netherlands
6. ⁶NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS, Bristol, UK
7. ⁷Department of Nephrology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia
8. ⁸Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and HLA Laboratory, Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
9. ⁹Canadian Blood Services, Organ Donation and Transplantation,Toronto, ON, Canada

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Kidney exchange: Further utilization of donors via listed exchange

• Özgür Yılmaz^, 

College of Administrative Science and Economics, Koç University, Sarıyer, İstanbul, 34450, Turkey

Journal of Mathematical Economics

Volume 51, March 2014, Pages 178–186

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Abstract

There is a set of incompatible patient–donor pairs and these pairs are matched pairwise. A match between two pairs corresponds to a paired kidney donation, where pairs exchange donated kidneys, or a paired listed exchange, where the first donor donates a kidney to the deceased donor wait-list, the first patient receives the kidney of the second donor, and the second patient receives a priority on the wait-list. We characterize the set of exchanges with the maximum number of transplants from the set of pairs. This characterization generalizes the well-known Gallai–Edmonds Decomposition Theorem.

Conference today on Economic Incentives for Gender Parity

I'll be a guest today at a conference that SIEPR is hosting for the Forum of Young Global Leaders, Economic Incentives for Gender Parity.

I plan to speak briefly about some of the difficulties that confront two-career couples in navigating the job market, and how those have evolved in the last half century.


Here's the morning agenda; I understand that there are also breakout sessions in the afternoon.

AGENDA:
9am  Keynote Address:

• Al Roth, Nobel Prize Recipient in Economic Sciences
• Leila Janah, Founder and CEO, Samasource

9:30am  Panel 1: The Future of Philanthropy through a Gender Lens
Leader: Kate Roberts, Co-Founder The Women’s Investment Network and SVP PSI
Panelists:
Jocelyn Wyatt, Co-Lead and Executive Director of IDEO.org

• Pam Scott, Philanthropist and Founder of The Curious Company
• Rebecca Van Dyke, CMO of Facebook
• Patricia Devereux, Executive Director, The Mastercard Foundation
• Jenn Alcorn, Private Donor Engagement for The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

10:30am Panel 2: Women in Technology and Social Entrepreneurship
Leader: Soulaima Gourani, 40 under 40, Rising Star and Talent 2014, Top 100 Talent Europe, YGL
Panelists:

• Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute, Fast Company's list of Most Influential Women in Technology in 2011
• Leila Janah, CEO Samasource, Entrepreneur's 7 most powerful people to watch in 2014, Forbe's 30 under 30, YGL
• Vivek Wadhwa, Distinguished author and journalist, Time’s list of the Top 40 Most Influential Minds in Tech

11:15am Panel 3: Women and Leadership in Global Organizations
Leader: Analisa Balares, CEO of Womensphere, Chair of Womensphere Foundation, YGL
Panelists:

• Susan Athey, Former Chief Economist, Microsoft, John Bates Clark Medal recipient
• Sonita Lontoh – Head of Marketing, Trilliant; Chairman, Indonesian Diaspora Foundation
• Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, CEO, Global Fund for Women; Board Member, CARE
• Rajiv Pant, Chief Technology Officer, The New York Times; YGL
• Lila Ibrahim, President, Coursera; Founder & CEO, Team4Tech; YGL

12:00pm Panel 4: Women and Entrepreneurship
Leader: Deborah Kan, Executive Producer Wall Street Journal, YGL
Panelists:

• Ben Rattray, Founder and CEO, Change.org, Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people
• Shaherose Charania, Founder and CEO, Women 2.0 and Founder Labs; CEOWorld Magazine's list of Most Influential Women in Tech to Follow on Twitter 
• Danae Ringelmann, Founder and Chief Development Officer at Indiegogo; Top 50 Most Influential Women in Technology by Fast Company
• Miriam Rivera, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for Minerva; Stanford Board of Trustees; Top 10 Corporate Attorneys in the United States by Corporate Counsel Magazine in 2005; Top 100 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal in 2011
• Randi Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media; Editor-in-chief of Dot Complicated; Former Director of Market Development and Spokeswoman for Facebook 

Near Feasible Stable Matchings with Complementarities, by Nguyen and Vohra

Here's an interesting new paper on couples in matching markets. When couples are present, the set of stable matchings may be empty, but a "small" perturbation of the problem that increases the capacities of some employers and decreases the capacity of others, restores the existence of stable matchings.  (I haven't yet fully absorbed this, e.g. its impact on overall employment...)


Near Feasible Stable Matchings with Complementarities

Thanh Nguyen and Rakesh Vohra

Sign spotted: Don't take your organs to heaven

Sign spotted in the emergency room by a colleague...

Boot camps for new software developers

Tamar Lewin in the NY Times has the story on a new kind of educational institution, designed to quickly produce software developers: Web-Era Trade Schools, Feeding a Need for Code

"SAN FRANCISCO — A new educational institution, the coding boot camp, is quietly emerging as the vocational school for the digital age, devoted to creating software developers.

These boot camps reflect the start-up ethic: small for-profit enterprises that are fast (classes are two to four months), nimble (revising curriculum to meet industry needs) and unconcerned with SAT scores or diplomas. Most are expensive, but some accept a share of the graduates’ first-year earnings or a finder’s fee from employers as payment.

Most important, at a time when so many young people are underemployed, most graduates, especially those from highly selective boot camps, quickly find well-paying jobs. In a recent survey of 48 boot camps, Course Report, an online boot camp directory, found that three-quarters of graduates were employed, with raises averaging 44 percent from their pre-boot camp pay and an average salary of $76,000."

I'll speak today at San Jose State U. on "The Economist as Engineer"

If you're in the neighborhood, come on by...

Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium - Alvin E. Roth

Since Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.

Speaker: Alvin E. Roth, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012, Professor, Harvard University and Stanford University

Thursday, 10/16/14

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

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San Jose State University
Engineering Building Room 189San Jose, CA 95192

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Here is the full Fall schedule of speakers. The symposia take place every Thursday from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm in the Engineering building auditorium, ENG 189.