Showing posts with label England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label England. Show all posts
Thursday, November 6, 2025

School choice and performance gaps in England: a report by Burgess, Cantillon, Greaves and Cavallo

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 Estelle Cantillon writes to tell me about her new report with Simon Burgess , Ellen Greaves , and  Mariagrazia Cavallo   on changing the...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Rationing access to mud in the Thames

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 There's a lot of mud in the Thames, but access to it is limited to when the tide is low (yes, the Thames has tides in the parts that ar...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Demand for surrogacy outstrips supply in England (where commercial surrogacy is illegal)

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  Economics in action. The Guardian has the story: ‘It’s overwhelming’: woman who was UK’s first surrogate closes agency as demand soars Kim...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Medical aid in dying: the continuing debate in England

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In June, the British Parliament passed a law to permit medical aid in dying, which still needs further action before going into effect.   Th...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Medical aid in dying considered in Britain, and evolving in Canada

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The Guardian has the story about England and Wales, and the NYT has a story on Canada. Here's the Guardian: Two former health secretarie...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Why living kidney donors in England should be financially compensated

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 Here's an article suggesting why England should pilot a program to compensate kidney donors.  Perhaps the argument is generalizable to ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Kidney news from Cambridge on possibility of removing blood type barriers

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  Here's some very preliminary kidney news (a press release) in The Guardian and at Cambridge, that could have the potential to have an ...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Opt out organ donation in England and the Netherlands

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  Jansen, N. E., Williment, C., Haase-Kromwijk, B. J. J. M., & Gardiner, D. (2022). Changing to an Opt Out System for Organ Donation—Re...
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...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Real estate auctions for turtledoves: Klemperer, Baldwin and Teytelboym in the Economist

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 The Economist reports on efforts to reverse the decline of turtledove nesting sites: How an auction is helping Britain’s turtle doves ...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Kidney exchange (including global kidney exchange), discussed at the European Society of Organ Transplantation meeting in Milan, Tuesday 29 June

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  ESOT: The 20th Congress of the European Society of Organ Transplantation, meeting (by Zoom) in Milan, Italy (so the talks start at 9am pac...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Covid has slowed transplants in the UK

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The Evening Standard has the story: Organ transplant waiting list jumps to five-year high due to pandemic, new NHS figures show by Naomi Ack...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

Internet dating while Muslim

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The Guardian has the story: SingleMuslim.com: how the Yorkshire dating site transformed Muslim romance It is one of the biggest dating si...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Family consent for deceased organ donation in Britain

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From the BBC:  Hundreds of families block organ donation "Organs from 505 registered donors could not be made available for transpla...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Uber's difficulties in London (and in general)

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Here's an illuminating article on the difficulties Uber is having in London. It's hard to extract a few representative sentences, b...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

School choice in England

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Gazumping in England: repugnant and soon to be illegal?

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When does a contract to sell a home become binding? That may be about to change in England. The Telegraph has the story. Relief for home b...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

There is no law against cannibalism in England

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The Guardian has the story: Eating people is wrong, but is it against the law? "H as   José Salvador Alvarenga   been reaching for t...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Assisted dying: the debate in England

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The Telegraph has the latest: ‘There is nothing sacred about suffering’, insist faith leaders in assisted dying call--Bishops, priests and...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Early admissions come to English universities

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The Guardian has the story: Top universities 'ignoring final A-level grades' in race to sign up students "Universities such ...