Showing posts with label incentives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label incentives. Show all posts
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Organ procurement centers (OPOs) are responding to changes in their performance evaluations (by Bae, Sweat, Melcher and Ashlagi in JAMA Surgery)

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 Here Bae H, Sweat KR, Melcher ML, Ashlagi I. Organ Procurement Following the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Performance Evaluat...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Tour de France competitions: conditioning, bikes, and drugs?

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 Agence France Presse (AFP) reports on the bike race, and speculates on the historical competition between drug takers and drug testers. Pog...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Helping meth users quit, by paying them

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 The NYT has the story: Upended by Meth, Some Communities Are Paying Users to Quit Unlike with opioids, there is no medication to suppress c...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Doping in the Tour de France: new dimensions

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 There was a time when only riders had to be tested for doping, but advances in electric motors and batteries mean that bikes too can be sus...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Lawyerly characteristics of American law students

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 The Americans With Disabilities Act requires schools to make accommodations for students whose disabilities require extra time for completi...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials

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If we expect tariffs to elicit reciprocal tariffs, what should we expect of allowing American firms to bribe foreign officials? The Guardian...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Altruism and financial incentives in medicine (less altruistic physicians more readily respond to payments by drug companies)

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 Physicians have professional obligations to care for their patients, and also deal with financial incentives that may not perfectly align w...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Sports gambling presents problems for gamblers, athletes, and sports

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  Sports betting has some potentially dire implications both for betters and for athletes and sports. Gamblers can find in-app gambling whil...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Behavioral market design (in the JEP)

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 The Fall 2024  Journal of Economic Perspective s has three papers on behavioral market design: Symposium: Behavioral Incentive Compatibi...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Gaming a bike sharing algorithm

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 Jacob Leshno points out this NYT story. He writes "The gist of it is that Citi bike pays to deliver bikes to stations with shortages,...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Recent kidney transplant papers

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 Here are two new papers on kidney exchange that caught my eye, and one on incentivizing deceased donation by prioritizing registered donors...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Gaming the health care system; David Cutler's concerns

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 The eminent Harvard health economist   David Cutler is worried by, among other things, the takeover of many healthcare facilities by privat...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Gambling on sports, by and on athletes

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  Now that sports betting is legal, and apps allow people to bet on particular events within a game as it unfolds, there is concern that pla...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Impact of prioritization on kidney and liver allocation in Israel

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      Israel's  Organ Transplantation Law grants some priority on waiting lists for transplants to candidates who are first-degree relat...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Incentives to take tests and get vaccinated

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  As the pandemic phase of Covid-19 recedes, we can reflect on what we've learned about demand for tests and for vaccines.   Here's ...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Reporting and misreporting from Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs)

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 Because there are shortages of organs for transplant, it is important to measure how successful Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) are ...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Incentives and mis-incentives in science (Freakonomics part II)

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  Freakonomics has a second post on fraud in science, and you can listen or read the transcript here: Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? Two quo...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

It's a dominant strategy for deferred acceptance proposers to state true preferences in the marriage problem: simple proof

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This post is not entirely self-contained, it is in some sense a continuation of and addition to my talk last year at the Simons Institute, w...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Market Design for Surface Water , by Ferguson and Milgrom

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 The potential market for surface water is a market in which any transfer of rights involves externalities affecting the water consumption o...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Organ transplantation in China: in transition--and controversy about paying funeral costs

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  I recently spoke at the CAST transplant conference in Hong Kong (see picture ), and the underlying theme of my talk, and of many talks the...