Thursday, August 27, 2015

Assisted dying: the debate in England

›
The Telegraph has the latest: ‘There is nothing sacred about suffering’, insist faith leaders in assisted dying call--Bishops, priests and...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Some histories of organ transplantation

›
I can't vouch for any of these...most are un-refereed internet pages...some starting with events reported from quite long ago, regardin...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Do participants try to strategize in strategy-proof mechanisms? Alex Rees-Jones surveys medical students about the NRMP.

›
One of the papers I heard at the recent SITE conference at Stanford was this one, reporting a survey of medical students engaged in the NRM...
1 comment:
Monday, August 24, 2015

Many dialysis patients are not referred to transplant centers in their first years on dialysis (incentives matter...)

›
Too Few Kidney Dialysis Patients Referred for Organ Transplant, Study Finds Only about one in four in Georgia get further evaluation &q...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Is unified enrollment school choice coming to Indianapolis?

›
"Caitlin Hannon gave up her job and her Indianapolis Public School Board seat for an idea that, while a pretty good bet to give her a ...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Storytellers prefer heroes, although research and development is done by teams...

›
I've spent some time helping my publisher(s) sell my book Who Gets What and Why since it came out in early June, so I have a renewed ap...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Some pictures from the Econometric Society World Congress in Montreal

›
There were many market design talks in Montreal this week: see if you can identify these well known market designers..
2 comments:

Organ donation in Qatar

›
Here's a story from Al Jazeera: Finding organ donors among Qatar's Muslim community The Qatari government offers a series of ince...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

A privacy-preserving market design intervention to avoid Tay Sachs disease

›
Scott Kominers draws my attention to a 1987 news note in JAMA, with a privacy-sensitive market design for keeping people's sensitive g...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

The Hal and Al Show: Hal Varian interviews me about "Who Gets What — and Why," at Google (video)

›
I got to chat with Hal Varian at Google last week (Aug 10), about my book, Who Gets What and Why, and how computer science and economics co...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

A look back at school choice in New Orleans

›
Here's an article discussing  IIPSC 's work in New Orleans, in the Fall issue of Education Next: The New Orleans OneAppCentralize...
Monday, August 17, 2015

It can be hard for parents to assemble information about schools

›
Here's a critique of the NYC high school choice system, from a former Dept of Ed administrator who now runs a public- and private-schoo...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

The Richmond Fed on market design

›
 In the magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, in an article called Economists and the Real World  Tim Sablik, interviews Susan...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

New papers on matching by Yeon-Koo Che and Olivier Tercieux (large markets and top trading cycles)

›
In the Cowles Foundation working paper series: "Efficiency and Stability in Large Matching Markets"   Cowles Foundation Disc...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Repugnant markets watch: ISIS institutionalizes a market for sex slaves (NY Times)

›
The NY Times has a long article on sex slavery in the Islamic State, by Rukmini Callimachi, including some detail about the market's ru...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Private and public sex, and prostitution

›
A thoughtful op-ed in the NY Times asks just what is prostitution, and how do we distinguish various kinds of private (as opposed to public...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Credit cards in Who Gets What and Why--excerpt in Business Insider

›
Yesterday's Business Insider published a few-paragraph excerpt from Who Gets What and Why : The 'cash back' you get from your...
1 comment:

Surrogacy troubles in Thailand

›
The Guardian has the story, about incomplete contracts and changing laws and social support for surrogacy in Thailand. Gay parents fight t...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Conference housing pirates--the (criminal) market for hotel rooms

›
Here's a scam I hadn't encountered before. I will be speaking at a transplant conference in February, and last week my phone rang...
1 comment:
Monday, August 10, 2015

Organjet versus regional transplant lists

›
Forbes discusses the unequal waiting times for deceased donor organs caused by the fact that transplant waiting lists are organized regiona...