The States as the laboratory of democracy: helping organ donors

News from the States:

Pa. senators mull inheritance tax cut, deductions for organ donors 

"While employers across the state are allowed to claim tax deductions for time off offered to living organ donors, donors themselves receive no such benefits.

That would change if lawmakers pass a bill sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Williams (D-Allegheny) and Lynda Schlegel Culver (R-Northumberland), who testified to members of the Senate Finance Committee almost five years to the date after receiving her sister’s kidney.
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“I’ve seen firsthand the gift of donation and what it means,” Culver told lawmakers. “It has allowed me and so many others the opportunity to have a full life.”

According to the University of Pennsylvania Health System, more than 6,000 Pennsylvanians were on the transplant waiting list in 2025.

Culver and Williams’ proposal would allow living organ donors to deduct up to $10,000 in unreimbursed expenses related to the donation from their taxable income. That would include costs like travel, lodging, lost wages and medical expenses.

According to Culver, studies show the average living organ donor faces roughly $5,000 in expenses, which includes things like travel, lost wages and child care during recovery.
...
The measure was passed unanimously by members of the Senate Finance Committee." 

PS 205: A brief address to my elementary school alma mater, about science in grade school

 A few weeks ago I was surprised to receive this email from a teacher at the elementary school that I attended, PS 205, in the New York City borough of Queens:

"Dear Mr. Roth,

I am a teacher at The Alexander Graham Bell School, PS 205 in Bayside, NY.

This is my 29th year teaching at this school and it is still an amazing school where children acquire the skills to blossom as adults!

It is my understanding that you are a graduate of this school.

We are holding a Career Day on Friday, March 6, 2026.

It would be wonderful if you could participate in some way, whether in person, zoom pre-recorded video or by another method.

As a Nobel Prize winner, this would be very inspiring for our students.

Please let me know if you would like to be part of this awesome event."

 

After some further correspondence, I sent a video greeting of a bit over a minute.  Here's the transcript:
 

 Transcript:

"Hi PS 205!  I hear that you’re having career day today.

  Mr Blum asked me to say a few words about how my career began to take shape when I was a student at PS 205, way back before your parents were born. I was a PS 205 student from 1957 to 1962, and it was in those years that I started to think about becoming a scientist.

In 1957, when I started school, the Sputnik satellite was launched by Russia, and in 1961 the first American astronaut, Allan Shepherd, rocketed into space. So science was in the news.  My big brother Ted (who was also a PS 205 student, four years older than me) was excited by the idea of becoming a scientist, and that made me excited too. And pretty soon I was entering the school’s annual science fairs, with demonstrations of scientific things.

When I grew up I did become a scientist, a social scientist.  I’m  an economist, which allows me to study how we humans coordinate and cooperate and compete with each other, in ways that have made us, on average, live longer and healthier lives. In fact one of the things I have worked on is to help doctors organize how more people can get kidney transplants if they need them, which helps them live longer and healthier lives.

Science can be a lot of fun.  In 2012 I won the Nobel Prize in Economics, which means I got to go to a big celebration of science and literature in Sweden, which almost everyone in that country watches on television. It’s sort of like their Super Bowl.

I can only imagine the things that you will do as you grow up. It will be an adventure."

The Faroe Islands are moving to end their ban on abortion

 Some controversies are familiar all over the world.

The NYT has the story:

The Faroe Islands Are Changing Some of Europe’s Strictest Abortion Rules
A new law allowing abortion up to 12 weeks will be a major shift in an archipelago of 55,000 people, and there are strong feelings on both sides.   By Amelia Nierenberg and Regin Winther Poulsen

"The Faroes, a self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark in the North Atlantic hundreds of miles from Copenhagen, allowed abortion only in rare cases.

...
"The Faroes have had a near-total abortion ban, one of Europe’s most restrictive, under a law that dates back to 1956. Like Ms. Jacobsen, some women lied to their doctors to get around the restrictions and end their pregnancies, doctors, lawmakers and advocates on both sides of the issue have said. 

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"But late last year, the Parliament in the archipelago of 55,000 people ratified a law that allows women to end a pregnancy within its first 12 weeks, a major shift in a place that has long been more religious and socially conservative than its Nordic peers. The law is set to take effect in July.

...

"But a parliamentary election is set for late March and polls suggest that power could pass to a conservative coalition that may try to block implementation of the law or change it." 

 

Pre-publication review of Moral Economics from Publisher's Weekly

Another small adventure in publishing:) 

Here's the pre-publication review of Moral Economics from Publisher's Weekly. "

TL;DR "Bringing balanced, evidence-based analyses to emotionally fraught debates, Roth reveals the power of markets to inspire solutions. This is trailblazing"

 

Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work

Alvin E. Roth. Basic Venture, $35 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5417-0201-1

"Nobel Prize–winning economist Roth (Who Gets What—and Why) delivers a stimulating study of morally contested products and services, such as abortion, assisted suicide, and marijuana. He refers to these as “repugnant transactions,” as they spark objections primarily on religious or moral grounds but don’t cause easily measurable harms to those seeking to ban them. Viewing these transactions as markets, or systems that can be designed to “allocate scarce resources efficiently and equitably,” can help people make progress on challenging topics, he argues. For example, analyses of legal prostiution show it can increase the market for paid sex but can also reduce rape and the spread of sexually transmitted disease. Another topic discussed is kidney donation. There is a nearly universal ban on compensating donors based on the concern that payments might lead to poor or vulnerable people being coerced into selling their organs. Meanwhile, there is an extreme shortage of donors, and loved ones are often incompatible with those they want to help (kidney disease runs in families). Roth and his colleagues designed a kidney exchange, in which incompatible patient-donor pairs exchange kidneys with other such pairs. Because no money changes hands, the problem of paying donors can be avoided. Bringing balanced, evidence-based analyses to emotionally fraught debates, Roth reveals the power of markets to inspire solutions. This is trailblazing. (May) 

 

 

International statistics on plasma donation show that it is quite safe

 Peter Jaworski collects the statistics from Europe and North America:

Plasma donation is safe
And commercial plasma donation is not less safe than non-commercial donations
Peter Jaworski
Mar 16, 2026 

"Source plasma donation (also called “plasmapheresis”) is inordinately safe (so is whole blood donation). And the best publicly-available donation safety data give us no reason to think that commercial plasma collection is less safe than non-commercial plasma collection.

" That claim may be surprising in light of the recent heartbreaking deaths reported after plasma donations in Winnipeg. These tragedies have raised questions about the safety of plasma donation in general, with some critics suggesting that commercial plasma donation is inherently less safe than non-commercial plasma donation.

"The evidence for the claim that plasmapheresis, including commercial plasmapheresis, is safe can be found in countries with the largest plasmapheresis programs, which publish annual reports on serious donor adverse events. Some of these countries have exclusively non-commercial plasma collection, while others have predominantly commercial systems. "

Congestion in signing your kid up for summer camp

 The WSJ has the story:

Welcome to the ‘Hunger Games’ of Parenting: Summer Camp Sign-Up
Parents set up command centers and practice checking out; ‘You just have to hope you’re not gonna get a pissed-off kid in basket weaving’ By Jesse Newman
 

"Because you cannot sleep on camp sign-ups once they open, parents book spots while boarding planes, hiding in the bushes at surprise parties and on the way to funerals. One doctor said she paused her rounds to register her daughter. 

...

"Lamenting the logistical nightmare, exorbitant costs and strain on working families, they offer tips and tricks for locking in sought-after sessions: Pay attention to countdown clocks. Log in on multiple devices. Assign one adult per child in need of programming.

...

"The only booking process Gerard’s found more stressful is reserving a spot on the summer ferry to Martha’s Vineyard. She had to queue online in February; in a virtual waiting room, she learned she was 10,000th in line. “We got a slot at 9 p.m.,” she said." 

How safe is plasma donation?

 Here's a story from the NYT, about the recent regularization of paid plasma donation in (some provinces of) Canada.

How Safe Is Plasma Donation?
Two recent deaths tied to for-profit clinics in Canada raised concerns about the health effects of having plasma drawn as often as twice a week. By Roni Caryn Rabin and Vjosa Isai

"Donating plasma, which is used to make lifesaving medicinal products, is widely perceived as low-risk. But questions about the safety of the practice arose this week when Canadian health authorities confirmed they were investigating two recent deaths of people who gave plasma at for-profit clinics in Winnipeg operated by Grifols, a Spanish health care company. 

"Millions of people donate frequently in North America. An estimated 60 to 70 percent of plasma-derived medicinal products worldwide are made from plasma donated in the United States.

And demand for plasma is growing. The market for plasma-derived medicinal products is valued at $40.35 billion and is expected to double over the next eight years, as the products are used to treat an expanding number of conditions, including immune deficiency syndromes and bleeding disorders.

But the health impact of frequent plasma donation on the donors themselves has not been well studied, and there is no consensus among health regulators about how long donors should wait between plasma draws.

In both Canada and the United States, companies can pay people an honorarium for donating their plasma, and health regulations say that people can donate up to twice a week.  

...

"A 2020 investigation by the F.D.A. into 34 deaths reported as being associated with plasma donation did not determine that donation was the cause of death in any of the cases. It ruled donation out entirely as a cause in 31 cases. "

 

My academic career to date, in two word clouds (covering 1974-1999 and 2000-2025)

 Here's a website that will make a word cloud based on your Google Scholar page: Scholar Goggler.

 I used it to create a kind of data-graphic of my career to date, by producing two word clouds from article titles on my Scholar page from 1974-1998 and from 1999-2025.  Those ranges have two properties: they are almost equally long, and so divide my career so far in half, and they also cover the period in which I mostly saw myself as a game-theorist and experimenter (studying bargaining, early in the period, and matching markets later), and the period in which I became something of a practical market designer drawing on those tools among others. (For context, my paper with Elliott Peranson on redesigning the medical residency match appeared in 1999*)

1974-1997 journal article titles

 

 

1998-2025 Journal article titles

 

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* Roth, A.E. and E. Peranson, "The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians: Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design,” American Economic Review, 89, 4, September, 1999, 748-780. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.89.4.748  

Citizen historians, preserving records before they are censored (shades of 1984)

 Citizen historians are documenting history as displayed e.g. in signs at national museums and monuments, as those are censored, so that the censorship will be known, and the past will be remembered.

The Washington Post has the story:

A professor challenged the Smithsonian. Security shut the gallery. As President Donald Trump seeks to reshape its museums and other cultural institutions, wall text has become a battleground and documentation a form of resistance.  By Kelsey Ables

"On a Monday afternoon this winter, 64-year-old historian James Millward climbed the steps of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery with a “little stack of handouts, like a good professor,” and no sense of the drama that was about to unfold.

He had heard that when the museum swapped out the president’s portrait in January, it also removed a placard mentioning Donald Trump’s impeachments and the Jan. 6 insurrection. For Millward, a scholar of Chinese history, well-versed in the censorial methods of that country’s Communist Party, the development stirred a familiar feeling: unease at seeing “history being snipped and clipped and disappeared.” 

...

"Stationed next to the freshly mounted portrait, which shows the president scowling over his desk, Millward offered printouts of the old wall text to interested visitors. They stated plainly that Trump was “impeached twice, on charges of abuse of power and incitement of insurrection.”

Millward called it “guerrilla teaching.” He was at the Portrait Gallery as an educator but also as co-founder of Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, a group that last year spent thousands of hours documenting every corner of the Smithsonian, to track any changes made as Trump administration officials assert control over the content of the museums. “I think it’s really important,” he says, “to show that the people are noticing.” 

...

"Within minutes, Millward estimates, a group of eight to 10 guards had gathered in the gallery. They were wearing different uniforms, he says, some with handcuffs and guns. Soon, they cleared the room of visitors and closed off the exhibition. 

... 

" Richard Meyer, an art history professor at Stanford University who has studied censorship, says the work of groups such as Citizen Historians could prove critical.

“Censorship is not just one moment,” he says. “It’s not just some external authority coming and saying, ‘This is going to be removed.’”

Documentation is a way to fight back. Because, he says, “the worst kind of censorship is the censorship we never know has happened.”

Exodus from NIH

 MedpageToday has the story:

The People — and Research — Lost in the NIH Exodus  by Rachana Pradhan and Katheryn Houghton, KFF Health News 

"Chou specializes in communication between patients and their healthcare providers, and social media's role in public health. She joined the federal government in 2007 as a fellow and became a civil servant in 2010.

She left her National Cancer Institute job in January, she said, because the "work is no longer based on facts or truth."

...

"Romberg is a scientist who specializes in preventing the use of and addiction to tobacco, electronic cigarettes, and cannabis. The harms that stem from substance use or addiction don't affect all Americans equally, she said.

Romberg left her "dream job" at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in December, she said, because Trump policies had compromised the research she helped oversee. Among other things, Romberg said, grants were terminated under an initiative she led to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities related to substance use.  

...

"The loss of staff means the NIH has "lost so much of that institutional knowledge and leadership, which is not something that is easy or can be learned overnight," 

Fuhito Kojima wins the R. K. Cho Economics Prize from Yonsei University

 Here's the announcement:

R. K. Cho Economics Prize 

"The R. K. Cho Economics Prize 2026 will be awarded to Professor Fuhito Kojima (University of Tokyo) for the practical development and implementation of matching theory.

"Professor Kojima is a leading scholar in the fields of matching theory and market design. He has developed these fields by studying practical aspects of matching markets such as large markets and distributional constraints. Building on his theoretical knowledge, he has contributed to the improvement of real-world matching and allocation mechanisms, including medical residency programs and nursery school admissions in Japan."

Here's the program of celebratory events:

2026 R. K. Cho Economics Prize Events  (May 6-8)

Symposium Celebrating 
Fuhito Kojima's Prize
323 Daewoo Hall, Yonsei University
May 6 (Wednesday)
9:00-9:20 Registration, Opening Remark

9:20-10:10 Fuhito Kojima (University of Tokyo)

"Fragmentation of Matching Markets and How Economics Can Help Integrate Them"

10:10-11:00 Michihiro Kandori (University of Tokyo)

"The Second Welfare Theorem in Markets with Discrete and Continuous Goods"

11:10-12:00 Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University)

"Learning Against Nature: Minimax Regret and the Price of Robustness"

13:00-13:50 Duk Gyoo Kim (Yonsei University)

"Good-Citizen Lottery"

14:00-14:50 Jinwoo Kim (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

"Monotone Comparative Statics without Lattices"

Prize Ceremony
B130 Daewoo Hall, Yonsei University
May 6 (Wednesday)
15:00-15:20 Registration

15:20-16:10 Award Ceremony

16:20-17:10 Award Lecture by Fuhito Kojima

"Science and Engineering of Market Design: Call for Action"


Fuhito Kojima Public Lecture Series
323 Daewoo Hall, Yonsei University
May 7 (Thursday)
13:00-14:30 Lecture 1: "Introduction to Matching Theory and Market Design"

15:00-16:30 Lecture 2: "How to Use Market Design under Practical Constraints of Society: Part 1"

May 8 (Friday)
10:00-11:30 Lecture 3: "How to Use Market Design under Practical Constraints of Society: Part 2"

Organizers: Jaeok Park, Daeyoung Jeong, Duk Gyoo Kim

Contact: rkcho.prize@yonsei.ac.kr 

Kidney exchange developments in India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Germany

 Here are recent reports on kidney exchange from  India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Germany.

 Atul Agnihotri: SOMETHING REMARKABLE IS HAPPENING IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION IN INDIA.

"Through collaboration with 63 transplant centers, APKD India enabled 130 kidney swap transplants in 2025, quietly becoming ONE OF THE LARGEST KIDNEY SWAP PROGRAMS outside the U.S.

And the momentum continues — January has already kicked off with 22 swap transplants.

A powerful reminder that when hospitals collaborate, more patients receive the gift of life.

"One Nation, One Swap."

https://lnkd.in/gZD6Q-md "

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Here's an article on the clinical trials of kidney exchange in Brazil, in preparation for a possible change in the transplant law to make it standard practice. 

Doação Renal Pareada (DRP) no Brasil: relato do primeiro caso envolvendo três duplas    Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) in Brazil: first 3-way case report   by Juliana Bastos, Glaucio Silva de Souza, Marcio Luiz de Sousa, Pedro Bastos Guimarães de
Almeida, Thais Freesz, David Jose de Barros
Machado, Elias David-Neto, Gustavo Fernandes Ferreira   https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-8239-JBN-2025-0177pt

 Abstract: Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) is a transformative strategy in living kidney donor transplantation (LDKT), particularly for overcoming immunological barriers that preclude direct donation. In 2021, KPD accounted for one-fifth of adult LDKT and for half of LDKT for sensitized recipients in the United States. In Brazil, with a high prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and over 30,000 patients on transplant waiting lists, the demand for compatible donors far exceeds supply. This article presents a case report of KPD in the Brazilian context, illustrating its feasibility and highlighting challenges and considerations for broader implementation. The case demonstrates KPD’s potential to increase transplant rates, improve outcomes, and reduce dialysis costs. Nevertheless, structural, ethical, and regulatory challenges remain. This report emphasizes the implications of expanding KPD as a sustainable, life-saving strategy in Brazil.

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Here's a report from  King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: 

Almeshari, K.A., Broering, D.C., Obeid, D.A., Alali, A.N., Algharabli, A.N., Pana, N.L. and ALI, T.Z., Innovative Strategies in Kidney Paired Donation: Single-Center Experience Achieving the Highest Annual Transplant Volume Globally. Frontiers in Immunology, 17, p.1623684. 

"Methods: We analyzed all kidney transplants performed through our KPD program between January and December 2024. The program aimed to achieve full HLA and ABO compatibility for incompatible pairs, while also incorporating additional strategies: inclusion of compatible pairs to improve HLA matching, acceptance of ABO quasi-compatible matches (e.g., A2 donors to O or B recipients), low-risk HLA-incompatible matching for HLA-incompatible candidates with cPRA >80%, and ABO-incompatible matching for those with cPRA >95%.

Results: A total of 135 patients (121 adults, 14 pediatrics) underwent KPD-facilitated transplantation, including 69 HLA-incompatible (51.1%), 37 ABO-incompatible (27.4%), and 29 compatible (21.5%) pairs. Females comprised 60.7% of the cohort, with a significantly higher proportion in the HLA-incompatible group (p < 0.001). HLA-incompatible recipients were older than others (mean age 42.5 years, p < 0.001). Most transplants (93.3%) occurred through 2- to 5-way closed chains, with the remainder via domino chains (6.7%). 

...

Conclusion: Our single-center experience demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of a high-volume KPD program in overcoming immunologic barriers to kidney transplantation. Strategic inclusion of compatible pairs, ABO quasi-compatible matching, low-risk HLA-incompatible, and ABO-incompatible matchings significantly increased access for difficult-to-match recipients. This model may serve as a replicable framework for other high-capacity transplant centers seeking to expand transplant access and improve outcomes for complex patient populations. "

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And here's a report on proposed German legislation to (finally) make kidney exchange legal in Germany: 

Biró, P., Budde, K., Burnapp, L., Cseh, Á., Kurschat, C., Manlove, D., & Ockenfels, A. (2026). Germany's Path to a National Kidney Exchange Program: An Assessment of the 2024 Legislative Proposal. Health Policy, 166, 105578. 

"Highlights

The German Federal Parliament plans to amend the Transplantation Act (1997).
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The main goal of the reform is to establish a national kidney exchange program.
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The draft law follows European best practices in many respects.
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However, the law prohibits the participation of compatible donor–recipient pairs, contrary to international evidence.
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Germany may join cross-border kidney exchange programs in the future. "

 

Big drop in international students coming to US (particularly from India)

 The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story:

The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought  By Karin Fischer 

  

 

 

Work from home increases fertility

 Here's a recent paper showing that work from home (WFH) increases fertility, expecially if both couples work from home.  The proposed mechanism is that WFH offers increased flexiblilty for child care...

 Work from Home and Fertility  by Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Katelyn Cranney, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate,  January 29, 2026
 

Abstract: We investigate how fertility relates to work from home (WFH) in the post-pandemic era, drawing on original data from our Global Survey of Working Arrangements and U.S. Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Realized fertility from 2023 to early 2025 and future planned fertility are higher among adults who WFH at least one day a week and, for couples, higher yet when both partners do so. Estimated lifetime fertility is greater by 0.32 children per woman when both partners WFH one or more days per week as compared to the case where neither does. The implications for national fertility rates differ across countries due mainly to large differences in WFH rates. In a complementary analysis using other U.S. data, one-year fertility rates in the 2023-2025 period rise with WFH opportunities in one’s own occupation and, for couples, in the partner’s occupation. 

 "Flexibility in when, where, and how to work – or the absence of such flexibility – is a potentially important factor in fertility decisions (Goldin, 2014, 2021). Jobs that allow work from home (WFH) typically offer more flexibility in these respects, making it easier for parents to combine child rearing with employment, and perhaps raising fertility. In this light, we investigate how realized and planned fertility relate to the WFH status of individuals and couples."

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 The FT has this on that: 

Could working from home solve the global fertility crisis?
New research shows allowing more flexibility to fit jobs around family could enable people to have more children   by Ashley Armstrong

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One can imagine that having both members of a couple work from home might raise fertility even more directly than through the prospect of increased flexibility for child care.   In that respect, WFH reminds me of Philip Larkin’s 1974 poem Annus Mirabilis:

“Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles' first LP.”

 

Medical training becomes less desirable in abortion-restricting states

 Here's a new study of applications to medical residency programs, suggesting that medical training has become less desirable in states with abortion restrictions, especially in abortion-related specialties, including obstetrics and gynecology, family medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine.

Ganguly AP, Basu A, Morenz AM. State-Level Disparities in Residency Applications After Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. JAMA Netw Open. 2026;9(3):e260286. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.0286 

 "In this cross-sectional study with an ITS analysis of 24 193 864 applications to 4315 residency programs for 5 years across all medical specialties, we observed a statistically significant disparity in applications from both women and men in states with abortion restrictions following the Dobbs decision in 2022 compared with states that did not enact restrictions. Despite overall increases in the number of residency applications during the study period, existing disparities between application volume to programs in abortion-restricted and nonrestricted states widened for women applying to residency, and new disparities emerged for men applying to residency post-Dobbs. Stratified analyses suggested that specialty type may influence differences, as effect sizes were increased among abortion-related specialties and decreased among the most competitive specialties.

"These findings affirm and expand on recent studies demonstrating decreased OBGYN residency applications and applicant interest in abortion-restricted states following the Dobbs decision.19 Additional studies have reported challenges faced by OBGYN programs in abortion-restricted states, including nonadherence to accreditation standards requiring abortion training, financial constraints for medical training, and burnout among residents and program leadership."

 

 

A philosopher interviews economists about rational choice

A hardcover copy of this book of interviews (of economists, by a philosopher) arrived in my mail the other day, and I'm enjoying it. It's also freely available online at the links below. (Here is my interview (pp 371-395).

Conversations on Rational Choice, a series of interviews conducted by Catherine Herfeld DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316344392   Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2025

 

 Contents:

Acknowledgments

1Introduction

2Pioneers of Rational Choice

1. 2.1Kenneth Arrow

2. 2.2Thomas Schelling

3. 2.3Martin Shubik

4. 2.4Gary Becker

3Formal Theories of Rational Choice

1. 3.1David Kreps

2. 3.2Itzhak Gilboa

3. 3.3Christian List

4Psychological Dimensions of Rational Choice

1. 4.1Robin Hogarth

2. 4.2Daniel Kahneman

3. 4.3Ernst Fehr

4. 4.4Gerd Gigerenzer

5Relating Neurons, Norms, and Networks to Rational Choice

1. 5.1Colin Camerer

2. 5.2Cristina Bicchieri

3. 5.3Rachel Kranton

6Rational Choice, Games, and Markets

1. 6.1Robert Aumann

2. 6.2Alvin Roth

3. 6.3Vernon Smith

7Critical Reflections on Rational Choice

1. 7.1Duncan Foley

2. 7.2Robert Sugden

3. 7.3Alexander Rosenberg

8Rational Choice in Philosophy

1. 8.1Isaac Levi

2. 8.2Patrick Suppes

3. 8.3Laurie A. Paul

9Epilogue

References

Index

 

Nick Bloom discusses work from home

 Econ To Go is a Stanford series in which Neale Mahoney, the director of SIEPR, interviews an economist.

In this one he interviews the inimitable Nick Bloom, who is perhaps the leading scholar of the growing pattern of work from home. 

 

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Summer school in Economic Theory in Jerusalem (28 June- 7 July 2026)

 The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is once again planning its long-running summer school in Economic Theory (which was skipped last year, amidst war with Iran...)

The 35th Advanced School in Economic Theory - Recent Developments in Economic Theory
Sun, 28/06/2026 to Tue, 07/07/2026
 
General Director: Eric Maskin, Harvard University

Director: Elchanan Ben- Porath, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 Speakers

Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University

Elchanan Ben- Porath, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ben Brooks, The University of Chicago

Marina Halac, Yale University

Eric Maskin, Harvard University

Abraham Neyman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University

Omer Tamuz, Caltech

Alexander Wolitzky, MIT

"This year’s School features some of the most exciting recent results in economic theory presented by the researchers who discovered them "

Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

 Here's the announcement from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences*:

Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize 

“To truly understand the American economy, one must recognize Claudia Goldin’s essential work,” said Laurie L. Patton, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. “We commend her fearlessness, leadership, and commitment to understanding what is lost and what is gained for everyone when opportunities for women contract or expand. Her dedication to communicating that knowledge widely is equally courageous.”

“It is a great honor to receive an award named for Talcott Parsons that has been given to leading figures in linguistics, history, psychology, and sociology,” said Goldin. “I am immensely gratified that my work in economic history is seen as a bridge between economics and the other social sciences.” 

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I learned of this award from an email with the subject line "Announcing an Academy Award," which for a moment made me think that Claudia had been honored by the Academy Awards, and would receive an Oscar.