Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Priority for organ donation in the UK?

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Britain's National Health Service is conducting a survey as part of an assessment of possible changes to its methods of acquiring and a...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Report from the National Kidney Registry

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The American Journal of Transplantation has published (early, online) a report detailing some of the successes of the National Kidney Regist...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

The market for marriage proposals...as signals

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Need some background as you drop to one knee? There's a market for that... Shock and Aww! "She had no idea what this was all lead...
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

International football (soccer) career paths--the case of Didier Drogba

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Simon Kuper in the FT reports on the football career so far of Didier Drogba, which began when he was 5 years old:  Didier Drogba is a case ...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Video of my talk at Microsoft Research, New England

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I gave a talk at MSR New England, to a fairly eclectic audience, so the talk isn't too technical (although it has technical flourishes:)...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Altruistic kidney donors help many, in Science News

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Rachel Ehrenberg in Science News reports on long kidney chains:  Altruistic kidney donors help many . "Many people needing kidney tra...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

More on circumcision in Germany

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Further developments on the ruling of a German court earlier this summer,  banning  circumcision. " German lawmakers have passed a cr...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Incentives and privacy

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A new paper by three computer scientists and an economist reports on some connections between privacy and incentive compatibility. MECHAN...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Parag Pathak wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

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It was announced in Washington today that Parag Pathak (who is in Istanbul giving the Shapley Lecture  at the World Congress of the Game Th...

Should there be one kidney exchange or many, and which ones, and when?

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The July issue of the Nephrology Times carries a story from the recent American Transplant Congress meetings, at which reports were given by...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Don't get sick in July...the market for new medical residents

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An experienced nurse reflects on the influx of inexperienced new doctors each July in the U.S.: Don't get sick in July And in England,...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Hermit Crab Vacancy Chains

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From Scientific American: On a Tiny Caribbean Island, Hermit Crabs Form Sophisticated Social Networks [Video] In 2009, Lewis and Ro...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Chain of lives: kidney exchange in Forbes

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Itai Ashlagi and David Gamarnik in Forbes: Kidney Transplants: How To Extend A Chain of Life " What is the best way to use the kidne...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Matching in Europe

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Estelle Cantillon draws my attention to the new website of the network of European researchers in matching and market design, with concentra...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Federal Law Clerk Hiring Plan is pretty much over

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...and acknowledged to be over. In October 2011 I wrote this post: Another year of the judicial clerkship market: maybe the las...

Match-Up 2012 in Budapest, July 19-20

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MATCH-UP 2012:    the Second International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences Here's the conference program:  Match-Up 2012 , ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Getting into Harvard the hard way, by transferring

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College admissions consists of lots of parts: early, regular, waiting lists, z-lists , transfers... It doesn't appear that transfers are...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Centralized application systems: more consolidation

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One of the ways the internet is changing job markets has to do with making it easier to transmit job market materials. (This becomes even mo...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

The university (Stanford) as a marketplace of ideas and innovation

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Writing in the New Yorker, Ken Auletta thinks about what makes Stanford the heart of silicon valley, and whether this is an entirely good th...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Kidney broker sentenced to prison in New Jersey

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Kidney Broker Sentenced To Prison As Donor Recalls Doubts " In the first criminal organ-trafficking case in the U.S., Quick took the ...