Wednesday, March 15, 2017

AEA Econ job market scramble is open

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Good luck to those on the job market. If you are still looking (for jobs or for economists to hire) this is the week to enter the Scramble...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Signaling interest for college admissions

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I've blogged before about Initial View, a service for overseas applicants to American colleges. It provides a video interview that can...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Matchmaking. La scienza economica del dare a ciascuno il suo: Who Gets What and Why in Italian

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Matchmaking. La scienza economica del dare a ciascuno il suo    (Matchmaking. The economics of giving to each his own). I guess that...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

It's costly to interview for residency programs

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Here's a debate about how to reduce the time and money cost of interviewing faced by many applicants for medical residencies and fellow...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

US Organ donation laws by state

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Here's a handy map of U.S. organ donation laws by state . Check out the tabs for legal consent, medical examiner/coroner, and support...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Who Gets What and Why in Polish

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Matchmaking. Kto co dostaje i dlaczego Ekonomia kojarzenia stron transakcji i projektowania rynku  From the publisher MT Biznes M...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Experimental macroeconomics

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The annual experimental macro workshop and summer school that have in the past been in Barcelona will this year be at Stony Brook (the emai...

Thoughts on 'extreme altruism,' focusing on nondirected kidney donors

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Here's an interesting article about altruism, non-directed kidney donors, and the difficulty of studying them (but maybe they are the o...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Global kidney exchange (and pushback) in the American Journal of Transplantation

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I've written earlier about the possibility of Global Kidney Exchange  (GKE), in which foreign patient-donor pairs who cannot afford tra...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Matching deceased organs to patients

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Here's colorful story about the software that offers deceased donor organs to patients, via their surgeons: Matching hearts — and kidn...
Monday, March 6, 2017

Tom Starzl (1926-2017)

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Dr. Thomas E. Starzl has passed away at 90. He pioneered the first liver transplants in the 1960's. He came to the University of Pitts...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Third Workshop on Marketplace Innovation, Stanford, June 1-2, 2017

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Third Workshop on Marketplace Innovation Stanford University, Stanford, California June 1-2, 2017 Abstract submission deadline :  Ma...
Saturday, March 4, 2017

Kdo dostává co – a proč : Who Gets What and Why in Czech

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Kdo dostává co – a proč    (Who Gets What and Why--Czech translation) Who Gets What and Why: Czech
Friday, March 3, 2017

The Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

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Outlawing a market is often the first step in the design of the illegal black market that results. Here's a paper from the most recent ...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Who Gets What and Why in Spanish for Latin America

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Here's the Spanish translation of my book Who Gets What and Why, for Latin America, published by Oceana. Lo que sea de cada quien....
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Surrogacy in China: available but illegal

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The Global Times has this story: Surrogacy to ‘remain illegal’ By Liu Caiyu   "China will not legalize surrogacy and will crack dow...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Incentives in Computer Science--Tim Roughgarden

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There was a time when only economists worried about incentives, but as this great looking computer science course by Tim Roughgarden shows,...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Donor sibling registry: matching donor-conceived sibs

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The Donor sibling registry is a matching service to help identify half siblings of  "donor conceived people," i.e. people who we...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Who can be a common law couple?

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Being a couple is about a lot of things, including survivor rights and medical visitation and decision-making rights... Inseparable Israe...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Interview on Who Gets What and Why: American Monetary Association, Jason Hartman

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This interview was conducted some time ago, but I just now saw the link...and listening to it just now, it seems to me that we had a pretty...