Sunday, August 9, 2015

SITE workshops on Psych and Econ, and on Experimental Econ, Aug 10-14

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Starting tomorrow, a week of behavioral and experimental econ at Stanford... Session 6: Psychology and Economics SITE 2015 Wo...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Is it time to compensate kidney donors?

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Tina Rosenberg in the NY Times thinks it is: It’s Time to Compensate Kidney Donors "Still, a debate is beginning to emerge. In the ...
Friday, August 7, 2015

You can't say that! Repugnant words

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The WSJ has the story on words we think people shouldn't say: How Dare You Say That! The Evolution of Profanity From ‘Odsbodikins’ to...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

First kidney exchange in South Africa

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South Africa's Daily Maverick has the story: Saving lives: South Africa joins paired kidney exchange revolution, ANDREA TEAGLE  SOUTH ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Who Gets What and Why in Romanian

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Aside from the translation of Who Gets What and Why into British English (in which the subtitle changed ), I think the Romanian translatio...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

An attack on science, and a defense in the LA Times: Golden Geese versus Golden Fleece

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Tiffany Field , who shared a Golden Goose Award  (given "to groups of researchers whose seemingly obscure, federally-funded research ...
Monday, August 3, 2015

Course allocation at Wharton: looking under the hood

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A new paper by Budish, Cachon, Kessler and Othman gives more detail on how the course allocation tool at Wharton works at a computational ...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

Plan ahead: the 2016 Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare in Lund

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The 13th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare JUNE 28 - JULY 1 2016, AT LUND UNIVERSITY The Society for Social Cho...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Iran's market for kidneys in the NY Times

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Tina Rosenberg writes about the Iranian kidney market: Need a Kidney? Not Iranian? You’ll Wait. Here's a part: "Iran’s system ...
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Friday, July 31, 2015

Competition between Peking and Tsinghua Universities

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From the WSJ blog:  Top Chinese Universities’ Recruitment Battle Turns Ugly "China’s version of the Ivy League found itself splatter...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

It's difficult to keep refugees where they don't want to be...

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I recently blogged about  Refugee resettlement as a matching problem . It's hard to resettle refugees in places that they don't wan...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The grey market for fetal tissue (it can't be sold for a profit, but profits can be made on processing)

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There has been recent attention to fetal stem cells, which are used in research into a number of diseases. The NY Times has the story: Fe...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Do pricing guidelines for human eggs violate antitrust laws?

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The WSJ has the story: Putting a Price on a Human Egg Lawsuit claims price guidelines used by fertility clinics artificially suppress the...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Roger Doooley interviews me about Who Gets What and Why

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Ep #68: Disrupting Markets with Nobel Winner Al Roth 07-23-2015  |   0 COMMENTS  |   ROGER DOOLEY My guest today on  The Brainfluen...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Ben Hippen on the economics of transplantation and dialysis

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Dr Hippen replies to an earlier article suggesting that incremental changes in current transplant practice could remove the need to radical...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Nash equilibrium: something on which economists agree

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The IGM Forum asks a panel of economists whether they agree or disagree with a given statement. The following statement drew a lot of agre...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Kidney exchange in Turkey, and the state of Turkish transplantation

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Here are two articles from the June issue of Transplantation Proceedings First International Paired Exchange Kidney Transplantation...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Inquiring Minds podcast on Who Gets What and Why

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Here's a podcast about my new book--first quarter hour is devoted to chat between the hosts, and then an interview with me, which sta...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Doctor assisted dying: the debate, and the Dutch experience

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Sangram Kadam points me to two different takes in the ongoing debate on doctor-assisted dying, and whether it should be legalized, and if ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Equilibrium effects: animals that might become extinct if no one eats them

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Not eating animals doesn't always mean there will be more of them: the Livestock Conservancy works to match breeding pairs of endanger...