Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Are promises made to living donors being upheld?

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Here's a press release from the American Society of Nephrology on a forthcoming article: Are promises made to living donors being uphe...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

John F. Nash, Jr.'s 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences medal and memorabilia: Auction at Sotheby's

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 Here's the auction page: John F. Nash, Jr.'s 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences   17 OCTOBER 2016 | 2:00 PM EDT | NEW YORK, ...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Hart and Holmstrom 2016! Congratulations to Oliver and Bengt:)

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https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2016/
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Family consent to deceased donation remains a concern in Britain

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The Guardian has the story Organ donation rates for transplants still too low in UK, says NHS Consent rate one of lowest in Europe, with ...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

More on kidney black markets in India

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Top Indian Hospital Complicit In Lucrative Black Market for Human Organs "Five doctors from one of India’s most distinguished hospit...
Friday, October 7, 2016

Drug deaths and deceased organ donors

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Traffic accidents are down, but drug deaths are up, not just in total numbers but among deceased organ donations. ("Hypoxia" has ...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Crossing borders in search of health, welfare, safety (video)

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Here's the video of a short (20 minute) talk I gave at the U Chicago's Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group ...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Sohn Conference, San Francisco, Oct 5

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I'll be speaking about market design to investment managers at a charitable conference today: Sohn San Francisco , October 5, 2016, Hya...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Why might machine learning be unfair?

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Hear Aaron Roth speak on this at Penn Law School, starting around minute 7:30 (you can control the video from under where the slides appear...
Monday, October 3, 2016

Unraveling of college sports recruiting--continued

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Inside Higher Ed has the story: Too Young to Commit? Urging colleges to change a recruiting culture that targets middle schoolers, Ivy Le...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Kidney exchange chains (a survey, including possibly the longest chain to date)

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Here's a survey on non-simultaneous kidney exchange chains: Are Transplant Chains the Answer to Our Kidney Deficit? by Melissa Laracy ...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

The Econometrics of Matching Models by Pierre-André Chiappori and Bernard Salanié in the JEL

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The Econometrics of Matching Models Pierre-André Chiappori and Bernard Salanié Journal of Economic Literature 2016, 54(3), 832–861 Abst...
Friday, September 30, 2016

A von Neumann medal in the shape of a saddle point

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It's a little hard to see, but the medal forms a saddle point: the intersection of the two lines is a maximum in the horizontal dire...
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Thursday, September 29, 2016

It looks like paying donors of bone marrow/ blood stem cells will remain illegal...

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The long story of whether some forms of blood stem cell (marrow) donation may be compensated seems to be coming to an end, back where it b...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Is vote swapping related to vote selling the way kidney exchange is related to kidney sales? (a blog post by Scott Aaronson on vote swapping)

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Here's a blog post from Scot Aaronson's blog "Shtetl Optimized". He points out that although vote trading is illegal, vot...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

National Living Organ Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC)

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I've recently joined the advisory board of the  National Living Organ Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) , which gives certain forms of fi...
Monday, September 26, 2016

The effects of Israel's new organ transplantation law on family consent for deceased donation

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Deceased donor organs are a scarce resource with the property that how they are allocated may influence their scarcity, by influencing the ...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Notes from China 2: Lanzhou

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I spoke in Lanzhou on Thursday, in Gansu Province, as part of a festival promoting the revival of the Silk Road as a market for internation...
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Notes from China 1: Changsha

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The first of two stops on my recent trip to China was in Changsha, in Hunan province.  I spoke about market design, following the publicati...
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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Celebration of David Kreps

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I was away and missed the academic festival to mark Dave Kreps' 65th birthday. But here's a nice account of it (after a non-sequitu...