Monday, June 4, 2012

First year of the new medical residency scramble, SOAP

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I've written before about the new Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP), and the National Resident Matching Program has now ...
Sunday, June 3, 2012

David Warsh on Stanford Econ

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David Warsh, in his role as economist-watcher , in The Providence Journal today (along with some observations about the market for newspaper...
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N.A.A.C.P. Endorses Same-Sex Marriage

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N.A.A.C.P. Endorses Same-Sex Marriage "The board of the N.A.A.C.P. voted to endorse same-sex marriage on Saturday, putting the weight...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

Kidney black markets are hard to stop

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It's difficult to collect reliable evidence about criminal activity, but The Guardian reports on recent WHO estimates of illegal kidney ...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Mike Rees and Greece: an intercontinental kidney exchange

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Greece and USA Complete First Intercontinental Kidney Paired Donation Transplant International Press Conference at the Embassy of Greece...

A remnant of Prohibition ends in Washington State.

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One of the remaining remnants of Prohibition crumbled in Washington State today (i.e. starting June 1), when the state monopoly on liquor gi...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

First circuit rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional

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Late breaking news from Boston on the judicial/legislative/elective battles going on over same sex marriage 's shaky status as a repugna...

Search firms in university hiring could become illegal in Illinois

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Search firms for hiring university administrators could become illegal for public universities in Illinois:  Illinois Bill Would Ban Use of ...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The market for medical referrals

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The medical profession finds (explicit) advertising repugnant, but specialists depend upon referrals, so there's a marketing industry at...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange

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That's the title of a new paper that explores (using random graph theory) the dramatic success of long non-simultaneous chains in kidne...

Michael Sandel on markets and economists

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The Boston Review hosts a Forum on Michael Sandel's arguments against markets: Forum: How Markets Crowd Out Morals Shout ...
Monday, May 28, 2012

NY Times debate on school choice and (residential) segregation

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Is Segregation Back in U.S. Public Schools? DEBATERS Integrating Rich and Poor Matters Most RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG, CENTURY...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Kidney exchange in San Antonio

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Adam Bingaman and his colleagues at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital,  in San Antonio, Texas, report on their stellar experie...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Adults for adultery?

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The Telegraph reports: British women drive demand for extramarital dating websites: More than a million British adults have subscribed to ex...
Friday, May 25, 2012

NEAD chains in kidney exchange: more on long chains

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GE healthymagination’s online health blog, Healthy Outlook, has an article  by Jane Langille on the unusually long Nonsimultaneous Extended ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Harvard after the return of early admissions

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Harvard Yield for Class of 2016 Soars to 81% " In the first year of Harvard’s renewed early admissions program, the yield for the cla...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Practical Exchange Design by McAfee and Vassilvitskii

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Google's Preston McAfee and Sergei Vassilvitskii offer a breezy  Overview of Practical Exchange Design Its conclusions: " A ric...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Public attitudes on compensation for donors

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Poll: Americans Show Support For Compensation Of Organ Donors "Federal law bans payments for organs. But given the need, we wondered...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Is market life sucking the meaning out of real life?

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Are too many things available to buy? That seems to be a theme of much recent literature that, at its worst, regrets how the economy has suc...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

NY Times debate: Is Prostitution Safer when It's Legal?

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The debate Is Prostitution Safer When It’s Legal?  mirrors in many ways the debate over whether legalizing compensation for kidney donors  (...
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