Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Economic Science Association

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I'm beginning a term as president of the Economic Science Association , which is the professional organization specifically devoted to e...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Work hours for medical residents

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Even With New Limits, Medical Residents' Work Hours Are Still Dangerously Long, Experts Say "New rules limiting work schedules f...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

School assignment as viewed by families over time, when sibs are given priority

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As I've noted before , demand for pre-kindergarten increases when pre-k kids are guaranteed spots at kindergarten, since it gives famili...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Motorcycles, organ donation, and helmet laws

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NY motorcyclist dies on ride protesting helmet law "Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in ...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Speaking to a captive audience (not such a valuable offer to a college professor)

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Since I am occasionally asked to do a radio interview, it took me a moment to parse this email I received recently: Hi Alvin, I'm pl...
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Friday, July 8, 2011

A Spanish market in stolen babies?

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In a chilling story, the NY Times reports Spain Confronts Decades of Pain Over Lost Babies " Prodded by grieving parents, Spanish jud...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

The New Yorker on Online Dating

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Nick Paumgarten in the New Yorker: Looking for Someone "Online dating sites, whatever their more mercenary motives, draw on the premi...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Marriage, evolving

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The New York Times has an unusually interesting discussion of marriage , motivated by NY State's recent legalization of same-sex marria...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Kidney exchange evolving: passing the baton

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Ruthanne Hanto, who has been ably running the New England Program for Kidney Exchange ( NEPKE ) since its founding, is joining the UNOS Kidn...
Monday, July 4, 2011

College education for women: a formerly repugnant transaction

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From an article about Trinity College in Washington DC, by Kevin Carey in the Washington Monthly: The Trinity Sisters "And so the two...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Kidney sales--and donor compensation--in China

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Sally Satel, writing in Slate, looks optimistically at the move by Chinese authorities to allow compensation for donors. Yuan a Kidney? Ch...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Overcrowded NYC kindergartens

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The NY Times reports that Big Kindergarten Wait List Limits City’s Pre-K Slots . The first line of the story struck me...maybe it was the ...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Adoptions by same sex couples

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Adoptions Rise by Same-Sex Couples, Despite Legal Barriers "Same-sex couples are explicitly prohibited from adopting in only two stat...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Medical education in Paris in the 1830's--cheap cadavers

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Lewis Lapham discusses David McCullough's “The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris." Cadavers at $2.50 Lured Americans to 1830s P...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

School choice in Denver

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Denver Public Schools is getting ready to develop a new public school choice plan, with the help of IIPSC (The Institute for Innovation in ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

School choice in England

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László Sándor points me to an Economist blog post about school choice: Schools admissions codes--Playing games . It begins with a nice pa...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

Options for nondirected kidney donors

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There was a time not long ago when nondirected kidney donation was so unusual that donors had few options. Recent developments in kidney exc...
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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Design of enforcement mechanisms: policing versus gunfighting

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A new addition to the experimental literature on how the possibility of punishment influences the efficient provision of public goods (and t...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

N.Y. legalizes same sex marriage

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After a close vote, NY State legalizes same sex marriage . " The marriage bill, whose fate was uncertain until moments before the vo...

Service upgrades

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This sentence is, in my experience, more typical of service upgrades than its author perhaps realized. "We are enhancing your online ...
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