Thursday, March 31, 2011

Boston Globe on school choice

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The Boston Globe has a series of articles and videos on the Boston School choice system, and the experience of getting in, or not, to your f...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Kim Krawiec reflects on organ donation

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I recently gave a talk at Duke U. Law School, on my paper with Judd Kessler  (who will be a professor at Wharton next year). In the law scho...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Report from the front on the war for talent

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From a recent NY Times article on recruiting in Silicon Valley: "Two executives at a small start-up who spoke on the condition of ano...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Same sex marriage still a repugnant transaction in Maryland

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Same-Sex Marriage Bill Falls Short in Maryland "The speaker of Maryland’s Democratic-controlled House of Delegates, Michael E. Busch,...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Misc. kidney transplantation

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In Texas, where everything is the biggest, the Texas Transplant Physician Group says they are the biggest " in Texas AND the United St...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Marijuana in Montana and shark-fin soup in California

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Two NY Times stories about repugnant markets caught my eye: Soup Without Fins? Some Californians Simmer and In Montana, an Economic B...
Friday, March 25, 2011

AMMA 2011 The Second Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications

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  AMMA 2011: The Second Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications    New York, NY August 22-23, 2011  Call for papers...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Unraveling of NBA (and college) basketball

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The NY Times Magazine writes about the Baylor freshman basketball player who is already an NBA draft prospect: Is it Dunk and Done for Perry...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The surrogacy supermarket in India

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This graphic, about the thriving pregnancy-for-hire market in India, is from the article  Moms market , by Namita Kohli, in the Hindustan ...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

2011 job market scramble for new economics Ph.D.s

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The AEA's Economics job market scramble web page opens for registration tomorrow. 2011 Job Market Scramble Important Dates: March 23: R...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Are college places in the U.K. like Japanese medical internships?

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That's the question raised in this Times Higher Education story by Simon Baker: Could Japanese hospital doctors offer a remedy to studen...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Match Day 2011

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This past Thursday, medical school seniors found out where they are matched to residencies. Ishani Ganguli, one of the newest in the fine tr...
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Experimental economics and philosophy in the Basque country

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XIV Summer School on Economics and Philosophy (2011), Experiments in Economics, Experiments in Philosophy Since 1998 the Urrutia Elejalde...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Market for adultery revisited

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Cheating, Incorporated At Ashley Madison's website for "dating," the infidelity economy is alive, well, and profitable By Shee...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Debate on kidney allocation in NEJM

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The attack is by Benjamin E. Hippen, M.D., J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., and Lainie Friedman Ross, M.D., Ph.D., (some of whos...

Organ donation from death row?

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A thought provoking op-ed in the NY Times --  Giving Life After Death Row , By CHRISTIAN LONGO His circumstances give him time to think, a...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

How not to assign kidneys

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"That's the title of a NY Times Op-Ed by LAINIE FRIEDMAN ROSS and BENJAMIN E. HIPPEN, criticizing the recent UNOS proposals to ch...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Dating fees added to the British inflation index

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Along with apps, natch. The Financial Times reports, Apps and dating fees added to inflation basket "Smartphones and the applications...

“Summa cum fraude:” Plagiarism as a (culturally dependent) repugnant transaction

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The NY Times discusses the recent resignation of the German defense minister after it was revealed that parts of his Ph.D. dissertation were...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Academic letters of reference

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At the Chronicle of Higher Ed, David Roediger writes of The Failed Promise of Electronic Applications "It would have been easy enough...
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