Tuesday, March 17, 2015

WSJ channels Nikhil Agarwal on salaries of medical residents

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Here’s the Real Reason Medical Residents Make Just $47,000 a Year, Study Suggests " In an upcoming paper in the   American Economic ...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Compensating donors for a different kind of transplant

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You Can Sell Your Poop For $13k Per Year And Help Science "In the spirit of one man’s trash being another man’s treasure, the non-...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Legacy exhibition at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm

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Legacy: 14 Nobel Laureates on inspiration, role models and the value of passing something on A video exhibition by the artists David Hodg...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

Market design and repugnance interview, in Japanese

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For readers of this blog who might like to read an interview in Japanese, here is one that includes discussion of both market design and re...

Sally Satel on compensation for kidney donors

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Sally Satel, in the Pacific Standard, makes the case for compensating kidney donors, illustrated with a photo including the first organ don...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Reflections on practical market design, by Moritz Hardt

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Moritz Hardt reflects on the political parts of market design, in connection with some of his (more or less) recent, discouraging experien...

Delay in Boston school choice this year

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Here's the story in the Boston Herald:  BPS apologizes 
for Boston schools lottery hang-up "Incoming school Superintendent Tomm...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Breast milk plan to purchase and sell breast milk cancelled in Detroit

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Steve Leider writes: "An Oregon-based company Medolac (partnering with the Mothers Milk Cooperative) was trying to expand its progr...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Tommy Andersson.on the prospects for kidney exchange in Scandinavia

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Tommy Andersson talks to Swedish radio about kidney exchange:  Matematisk modell kan lindra organbrist  (Google translate: Mathematical mo...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Extra-marital sex in France: Gleeden (and the importance of hyphens)

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The NY Times is shocked:  Extramarital Dating Site Unsettles the Land of Discreet Affairs " The ads for the dating website  Gleeden ...
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Monday, March 9, 2015

Kidney disease in the United States--in 4 graphs

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Kidney disease statistics for the United States  (and here ) from the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases   Information Clearinghouse (NK...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Dynamic games in this summer's Jerusalem School of Economic Theory, June 24-July 3 2015

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...with some experimenters on the faculty too... 26th Jerusalem School in Economic Theory Dynamic Games Event date:  Jun 24 - J...

Academic jobs in the humanities

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences reports on declines in jobs posted in the humanities: Danger Signs for the Academic Job Market in...

Organ shortage in Switzerland

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Switzerland has fewer organ donors than you would expect: La Suisse manque cruellement de donneurs d'organes Only 117 donors were re...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Sniping on eBay, revisited

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Is Sniping A Problem For Online Auction Markets? Matthew Backus ,  Tom Blake , Dimitriy V. Masterov,  Steven Tadelis NBER Working Pa...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Some transplanted kidneys last a long time: Robert Phillips, transplanted in 1963, recently passed away

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Colonial Beach man was longest-lived in world with donated kidney "Phillips’ donor kidney lasted longer than any other in the world,...

Dynamic Allocation and Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach, by Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu

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Here's a book I haven't had a chance to see yet, but looks worthwhile: Dynamic Allocation and Pricing A Mechanism Design Approac...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

First kidney exchange in Poland,February 2015

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Here's the story, published February 18 2015:  Poland's first living donor paired kidney exchange "Poland's first kidney...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Video of two lectures: Market design and the flow of information (50 minute) and kidney exchange (20 minutes)

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This is a video of the lunchtime talk I gave in early February at the  Information Theory and Applications workshop . The talk introduce...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Behavioral macro economics

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Here's the call for papers for an NBER conference: "Call for Papers NBER EFBEM Working Group Andrew Caplin and Michael Woodfo...