Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Commerce and peer review: pay for speed?

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Science has the story (and science is the story): Editor quits journal over pay-for-expedited peer-review offer "With a tweet yeste...
Monday, April 13, 2015

A problem for the NRMP that may be growing

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I've had correspondence and conversations with a number of residency program directors, about a common problem that may interfere with ...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Organ donors increase in California, as undocumented residents become eligible for driver's licenses

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Organ donors increase in California "BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) - There has been a recent hike in people registering as organ ...

How the United States Stacks Up to Other Countries in Chronic Kidney Disease, by Elisa Gordon

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How the United States Stacks Up to Other Countries in Chronic Kidney Disease  by Elisa Gordon, is full of links to useful data sources
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Bargaining, and the law of one price on the internet: Axiomatic Models of Bargaining

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Sometimes price variation on the internet is explained by search costs, etc., but below is an example that is hard to explain that way, si...
Friday, April 10, 2015

A first non-directed donor kidney exchange chain in Italy

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with help from G-translate: Trapianti: in Italia il primo caso di donatore samaritano "Transplantation: in Italy the first case of S...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

The Orthopedic Surgery Fellowships

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I recently occupied the attention of some knee surgeons, with whom I had interacted in a very different way when writing about how fellowsh...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

History of Experimental Economics -- Andrej Svorenčik

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History is happening fast...now featuring "the last third of the 20th century." The Experimental Turn in Economics: A History ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Universal enrollment--some benefits in New Orleans school choice

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An editorial in the Times-Picayune remarks on some of the benefits of having school choice using a universal enrollment system that allows ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015

Kidney exchange may be imminent in Sweden

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Two articles in the Swedish press reflect the growing preparations there for kidney exchange: Matchning av donatorer kan öka tillgången p...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

University governance, at Harvard

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In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Charles Fried and Bob Mnookin write about the increased centralization of governance at Harvard: The ...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Recent transplantation news

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The latest issue of the American Journal of Transplantation ( Volume 15, Issue 4 Pages 851 - 1129, April 2015 ) has a number of interesting...

The market for orgies

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The Telegraph reports on The rise and rise of the upmarket orgy "Behind the Dominique Strauss-Khan pimping trial lurks the extraordin...
Friday, April 3, 2015

In defense of pilot studies for organ donor incentives

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The third in the series of forthcoming AJT papers about incentives/disincentives for donation discusses the basis for pilot studies (see ea...

There's no consensus on incentives for kidney donation, but maybe there is on removing disincentives

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The discussion of whether there should be incentives for organ (particularly kidney) donation remains heated. But there seems to be a growi...

Two major transplantation societies cautiously consider incentives for organ donation

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Last year there was a conference, which I participated in. Now there is a paper in the American Journal of Transplantation, cautiously word...

Transplantation and transportation: kidney exchange by train in Spain

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Donor kidneys for kidney exchange will be travelling by train, in Spain: Spain’s high-speed AVE rail to transport donated organs "T...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

The effects of school choice: Abdulkadiroglu, Agarwal and Pathak look at New York City data

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Effective school choice design not only helps school choice work efficiently, it also yields a treasure-trove of usable data about schools....