Saturday, December 7, 2013

Dmitry Taubinsky (job market candidate), on attention

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Among the economists I'm engaged with  on the job market this year  is Dmitry Taubinsky . He studies attention as a scarce resource, so...
Friday, December 6, 2013

Dan Fragiadakis (job market candidate)

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Among the economists I'm engaged with on the job market this year is Dan Fragiadakis . You should think about hiring him.  His job mar...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Pete Troyan (job market candidate) on the rural hospital problem (among other things)

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Among the economists I'm engaged with on the job market this year is Pete Troyan . You should think about hiring him.  His job market ...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Three students on the economics job market this year (2013-14): Fragiadakis, Taubinsky, Troyan

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One sign that I'm in still in transit between retiring from Harvard and settling in at Stanford is that I'm not the chair of the di...

Comment on the proposed federal regulation limiting bone marrow compensation

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I've written earlier about the proposed regulations that would reverse the effect of the 9th circuit court of appeals decision to allo...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

First heart transplant: Dec. 3 1967

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Here's the story:  First heart transplant: Dec. 3 1967 "Shortly after midnight, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, heading a team of 20 doc...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Compensation for donors: it's not just kidneys

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I'll be speaking later this year about deceased donation at a conference of the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantat...
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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Horse meat served in an Israeli restaurant, with subsequent apologies

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Here's the story from Haaretz: Psst! That's horse you're eating, Tel Aviv waiter admits Turkiz serves horse regularly but didn...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

An investigative journalist at the Telegraph is offered a kidney for sale

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Britons being sold illegal kidneys for surgery in Sri Lanka Patients awaiting kidney transplants in the UK are being offered illegal organ...
Friday, November 29, 2013

George Dantzig's math library is available for "private treaty sale"

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Here is the sale site , and here is Michael Trick's blog post on the sale,  Own a Ton of Operations Research History . That post ends...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

High pay isn't repugnant in Switzerland after all, at least not to 65%

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Here's the story from Bloomberg:  Swiss Voters Reject Strict CEO Pay Limits in Referendum "Swiss voters rejected a proposal to l...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

What happens when Big Data meets human resources?

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That's the question asked by this recent article in the Atlantic  by Don Peck, which focuses on using nontraditional data to match work...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

School choice in New Orleans: schools have big strategy sets

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In New Orleans (as in New York City), some schools have big strategy sets. The Times-Picayune reports:  Two New Orleans high schools said t...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Celebrate Marilda Sotomayor at her 70th birthday conference in Brazil, July 25-31, 2014

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Here's the conference website , which says in part: It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the SÃO PAULO SCHOOL OF A...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

N.Y.C. turns to open data to help with high school choice

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Here's an encouraging development: New York City is making data available to third party app developers to help families compare school...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Deceased donor registration versus transplantation in Malaysia

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The National News Agency of Malaysia (BERNAMA) has the following disheartening report on the difference between deceased organ donor regist...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Eating horsemeat is good for horses, says Britain's Princess Anne

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The Telegraph has the story (and a video): Princess Anne: why Britain should consider eating horsemeat "The Princess Royal, who is P...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

D.C.plans a single school choice system that includes both traditional and charter schools

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Here's the story from the Washington Post: D.C. rolls out unified enrollment lottery for traditional, charter schools The story even...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Seminar on modern matching, by Scott Kominers

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If you are at loose ends in Cambridge MA this noon... Scott Kominers: "Theory, Practice, and Engineering in (Generalized) Matching M...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

More on the law and politics of compensating bone marrow donors

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The legal battle is shaping up over the decision of the department of Health and Human Services to circumvent the decision of the ninth cir...
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