Sunday, July 27, 2014

LA Times OpEd: We shouldn't treat kidneys as commodities

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The distinguished transplant nephrologist Gabe Danovitch and the lawyer and medical ethicist Alexander Capron respond to the recent WSJ ope...
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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Market design in honour of John Ledyard in Sydney

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Here in the Southern hemisphere, there are two simultaneous conferences on market design. I'm at the one in Sao Paulo in honor of Maril...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Financial disincentives to live kidney donation: richer people donate at a higher rate

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The paper "Population Income and Longitudinal Trends in Living Kidney Donation in the United States" by Jagbir Gill, Jianghu Dong...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Marilda Sotomayor, July 25-30 at the University of Sao Paulo

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Here's Marilda's cv , and the conference program: HIGHLIGHTS: Prof. Alvin E. Roth, Nobel Laureate 2012, will present the mi...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Update on school choice in Newark

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The WSJ has the story: Charters Catch On Fast in Newark : Parents Increasingly Look Outside District Schools By LESLIE BRODY "In th...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Should there be a residency match for medical physics?

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The Journal of Medical Physics has published a debate on the resolution:  Medical physics residents should be placed using a matching progr...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Is same-sex dancing repugnant in Britain?

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The Telegraph has the story: Ballroom may soon be strictly off limits for same-sex pairs  "Women have traditionally paired up at tea...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Dynamic Games, Contracts, and Markets at Stanford SITE, July 21-23

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STANFORD INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL ECONOMICS (SITE) Session 3: Dynamic Games, Contracts, and Markets Monday, July 21, 2014 8:30 am  ...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

"The organ detective:" article about anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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An interesting long article by Ethan Watters in the July/August issue of the Pacific Standard:  The Organ Detective: A Career Spent Uncover...
Friday, July 18, 2014

What is the effect of legalizing indoor prostitution?

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In 2009 I wrote a blog post about the unusual situation in Rhode Island, in which a change in legislation had inadvertently made only outdo...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Golden Goose Award to Preston McAfee, Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson

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One of the 2014 Golden Goose Awards recognizes the spectrum auction work of Preston, Paul and Bob. Of Geese and Game Theory: Auctions,...