Sunday, August 16, 2020

4th Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good, August 17-19, 2020 (MD4SG )'20

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 This week:  4th Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good, August 17-19, 2020  (MD4SG '20) "The fourth workshop on Mechanism De...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Social distancing during the plague

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 The Washington Post has the story (as a tourist destination...) Restaurants in Italy are reopening ancient ‘wine windows’ used during the p...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Should residency program rank order lists be kept confidential from the Dean?

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Here's the report of a survey of residency program directors in radiology. One issue, not confined to radiology, is the confidentiality ...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Gender distribution of medical residents

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 Surgeons are still less likely to be women (particularly orthopedic surgeons): Bennett CL, Baker O, Rangel EL, Marsh RH. The Gender Gap in ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

The end of the beginning of the gig economy? Uber, Lyft and California AB5

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 The San Francisco Chronicle has the latest news on the most concrete step yet to require Uber and Lyft to shift from a contractor-driver bu...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Transplanting two kidneys from older deceased donors to reduce discards

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Here's a venerable but newly fashionable idea in transplantation, particularly for deceased donors whose (individual) kidneys have alrea...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Reputation among thieves: ransomware and kidnapping

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Like everyone else, I occasionally get notifications of data breaches from organizations with which I have digital relations.  Often the bre...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Experimental Economics SITE conference at Stanford, by Zoom, Aug 10 and 11, 2020

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 Tomorrow and Tuesday, here's the SITE Experimental Economics conference schedule (Mon Aug. 10 and Tuesday Aug. 11).   Muriel Introduc...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

Is convalescent plasma useful for treating covid-19?

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The reported results on convalescent plasma are so far still quite incomplete, and mixed.  If I had to summarize, I'd say that a growing...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Global kidney exchange between Abu Dhabi and Kerala (India)

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Here is an article in the newspaper Malayalam Manorama, in Malayalam , the language spoken in Kerala, about a global kidney exchange between...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

Is randomization repugnant?

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Objecting to experiments even while approving of the policies or treatments they compar e Patrick R. Heck,  Christopher F. Chabris,  Duncan ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Admissions to polytechnics in Finland, by Kristian Koerselman

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Here's a paper that gives a very clear description of the centralized application process for Finnish polytechnics (applied universitie...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Unbalanced matching markets with short preference lists may not have very unequal stable matchings, by Kanoria, Min, and Qian

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Here's a new paper exploring what happens when unbalanced matching markets (with unequal numbers of participants on opposite sides) als...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Josh Morrison and health policy activism: kidneys and covid

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Here's a profile of Josh Morrison, one of the most interesting health care policy activists I've encountered.  I first met him when ...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Foie gras sale ban in CA doesn't rule out interstate commerce

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The Mercury News has the lastest twist on the long running saga of foie gras in California: Foie gras ruling puts it back on Californians...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Arranged marriage, in India, on television

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The Guardian and the Indian Express have the story about a tv show about arranged marriage, a venerable institution that is becoming contro...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Australia-New Zealand kidney exchange program

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New Zealand and Australia are cooperating with cross-border, international kidney exchange. The Australian has the story: The chain gang...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Surrogacy and global kidney exchange receive popular support even where banned, in PNAS by Roth and Wang

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Popular repugnance contrasts with legal bans on controversial markets Alvin E. Roth and  Stephanie W. Wang PNAS first published July 29,...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Emmanuel Farhi 1978-2020

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Emmanuel Farhi passed away last week, unexpectedly and tragically.  He was my colleague at Harvard, and we had recently sought to hire him ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Stanford campus in lockdown--pictures

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Stanford is under-crowded in these coronavirus lockdown days of July...
Monday, July 27, 2020

JET Stanford

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Here's an email sent yesterday by my department chair: "It has belatedly come to my attention that the Journal of Economic Theo...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Chocolate is good for your heart

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Breaking (good) news on the chocolate science front--from the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology Association between chocolate con...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Speed dating, and matchmaking via Zoom, in Japan

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The Washington Post has the story: Lockdowns make the heart grow fonder in Japan as online matchmaking surges By Simon Denyer and Akiko ...