Saturday, March 15, 2014

1000 kidney exchange transplants by NKR

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Here's the announcement:  National Kidney Registry Facilitates 1000th Transplant "BABYLON, NY--(Marketwired - Mar 12, 2014) -  ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Legal brothels in Germany

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The Telegraph has the story: Welcome to Paradise  (Paradise is the name of a brothel in Stuttgart.). It's an unusually good article, so...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Prostitution in America

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Yesterday's NY Times writes about a report from the Urban Institute, funded by the Department of Justice, on prostitution in eight U.S....
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Vocabulary in the fertility business

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Over at Bill of Health, Dov Fox starts a post on some tax litigation with some linguistic notes from the field: Can you be taxed for selli...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Recommender dating site

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As is the case with used cars, it may be desirable to buy from someone you know.  http://www.jessmeetken.com/ is an internet dating site t...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Society for Mutual Autopsy: Nineteenth Century solution to the cadaver shortage for anatomy studies

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Michael Webster directs my attention to this post about  The Society of Mutual Autopsy , a society formed to supply cadavers for more, and ...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Surrogacy law in Israel

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Apparently it is legal for heterosexual couples to pay surrogate mothers in Israel, but not for same sex couples, and there is legislation ...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

Utku Unver and Tayfun Sonmez talk about kidney exchange--video

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Tayfun Sonmez and Utku Unver have a video on Boston College's YouTube channel: "Published on Feb 23, 2014 Groundbreaking rese...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Good summary of 15 minute talk on market design and experimental economics at Pitt

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At the University of Pittsburgh, where I'm now an alum, I gave a 15 minute talk without slides, and it was covered in this news story ...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Computer-assisted smart markets, at UC Davis

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I'll be speaking today at UC Davis: Alvin Roth Lecture: Computer-Assisted Smart Markets March 06, 2014 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm  Depar...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

More on industrial farming

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Are some farming transactions repugnant? The NY Times runs a story under the headline  Wishing They All Could Be California Hens " H...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Insider trading 2.0

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The WSJ reports on the increasingly repugnant practice of selling access to news earlier to some customers than others: Firm Stops Giving ...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Paul Klemperer on the product mix auction, and market design (video)

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How geometry came to the rescue during the banking crisis - video "Economist Paul Klemperer of Oxford University describes how he in...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Organize: to end the organ shortage

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I don't know much about this (relatively new) organization, Organize.org ,  but I like their slogan: It's hard enough to survive a ...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Abdulkadiroglu, Angrist and Pathak on exam schools

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In Econometrica; January 2014 - Volume 82 Issue 1 Page 137 - 196 p.137 The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Honors flow both ways at Pitt

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I'm going to applaud and be applauded at one of my favorite universities, where I taught from 1982-1998. Nobel Laureate Alvin E. Roth...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

McKay lecture at Pitt on Market Design

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If you're in Pittsburgh, I'll be giving the McKay Lecture at my old home, the Department of Economics at Pitt. Market Design: The...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Boston Globe on 2010 death of live liver donor

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The Boston Globe had a story earlier this month recounting the events surrounding the 2010 death of a liver donor (about which they wrote a...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Pros and cons of paying for kidneys, in the Journal of Medical Ethics

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Some pros and cons on paying for kidneys in the Journal of Medical Ethics, March 2014, Volume 40, Issue 3 From the editors' summary i...