Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Growth of kidney donation by unrelated donors

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Kidney exchange has allowed more people to receive kidneys from unrelated donors, but that isn't all that's going on, it has also be...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Grade inflation in law schools

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The NY Times report that some law schools are retroactively raising the grades they have given to their students, in an effort to improve th...
Monday, July 5, 2010

Future organ replacement

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I expect that your grandchildren will have the luxury of viewing all the work on kidney exchang e and transplantation generally as primitive...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Ribald 4th of July: memories of July 1970

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The title of this post comes from a typo in an article about the 4th of July celebrations that have been conducted since 1912 at Rebild N...
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The market for fireworks, July 4th 2010

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“Happy Fourth of July—made in China.” "“there are virtually no fireworks being manufactured in the U.S.,” says John Rogers, who travels...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

Sidney Siegel and Psychology & Economics

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That's the subject of a recent article: Innocenti, Alessandro, " How a psychologist informed economics: The case of Sidney Siegel ,...
Friday, July 2, 2010

White House aides aren't lured by their current salaries

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White House salary information released , including a database by name.

Advertising versus data on dating web sites

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Advertising is easier to come by than data: apparently no one really knows much about the effect of online dating sites on producing marriag...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

School choice in Spain

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Flip Klijn writes: "Hey Al, Recently, a letter in the Spanish newspaper "La Vanguardia" questions the new mechanism to assign...
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Heads of government for and against same-sex marriage

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Two of yesterday's news stories from very different parts of the world caught my eye. Icelandic Leader in Milestone Gay Marriage "I...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The market for kidneys in Iran

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The Iranian economist Farshad Fatemi at the Sharif University of Technology sent me this link to his very interesting working paper The Regu...
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Market for prayers in Iran

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It's not just kidneys ; selling prayers in Iran isn't repugnant either. In Islamic Iran prayer sellers' trade is booming "T...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

A degree is a degree

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"A degree is a degree! Whether fake or genuine, it's a degree! It makes no difference!" Baluchistan province chief minister Na...

Espionage: the market for secret information

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The newspapers this morning are full of stories about the arrest of eleven accused Russian spies, e.g. the NY Times reports In Ordinary Live...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Live kidney donation: how to ask in Chicago

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Harvey Mysel, a kidney recipient who went on to found the Living Kidney Donor Network , writes to ask me to let readers know of two workshop...

Signaling you're not 'overqualified' in a recession

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The Globe reports on Deflating credentials to land a job . "As the tight job market forces the unemployed to apply for lower-level posi...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Misc. organ transplant links

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A Review of Organ and Tissue Donation Procedures by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians nicely summarizes some of the different way...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Decent work research prize

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When I read that the International Labour Organization had a Decent Work Research Prize , my initial thought was "finally, a research p...

Changing sexual mores in China

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Swinger Tests China’s Sex Morals "On Thursday, a court sentenced Mr. Ma to three-and-a-half years in prison, a severe penalty for a cri...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Couples match

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham magazine (June 2010) writes about the couples match: Match Making--Software Helps Medical Couples St...