Friday, August 18, 2017

A still-skeptical view of transplantation in China

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My recent post on transplantation in China reported on optimistic assessments of the move away from using executed prisoners as a source o...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Harm reduction: decriminalizing drugs to reduce overdoses?

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From the Toronto Star: Should Toronto push to decriminalize all drugs? The city’s medical health officer ready to consider it The city is...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Surrogacy in France (and IVF for unmarried folks)

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Surrogacy has long been illegal in France, but the fact that it is legal elsewhere in the world (such as California) has put pressure on Fr...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Iran's Parliament considers government distribution of drugs to addicts

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Here are several English language stories that report on recent events in the Iranian Parliament that suggests a legalizing of certain form...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Podcast on matching markets and more from Social Science Bites

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David Edmonds interviewed me in London for Social Science Bites , mostly about matching markets, but also about interdisciplinarity, and wh...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Is it repugnant to give money to poor people?

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Chris Blattman's weekly report includes a  guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of  Innovations for Poverty Action   containing this interestin...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Is it repugnant to write books for children and young adults that deal explicitly with sex?

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Is it repugnant to write books for teenagers that deal explicitly with sex?  How about for four year olds? From the NY Times: Want Teena...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Organ transplants in China: an optimistic assessment

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There are optimistic statements about China's progress on developing a system of voluntary organ donation (to replace the prior system ...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

"Demonstrated interest" as costly signaling in college admissions

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Costly signals are valuable as signals because they are costly to send. But of course they may be more costly for some to send than others....
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

More on compensation for donors

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It's hard for anyone to say anything new in the long (and long-running) debate about whether we should try to increase the supply of ki...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Trump Administration Withdraws Proposed Ban on Compensation for Bone Marrow

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After the Ninth Circuit ruled that compensation for blood stem cells (sometimes simply referred to as bone marrow) could be compensated in ...
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Monday, August 7, 2017

Child marriage in California

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The San Francisco Chronicle has the story: Effort to bar child marriage in California runs into opposition By Jill Tucker "A Bay ...
Sunday, August 6, 2017

Polygamy convictions in Canada

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The CBC has the story: Winston Blackmore and James Oler found guilty of polygamy by B.C. judge Former bishops of Bountiful both have num...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Interview on market design in Mundo Empresarial (in Spanish)

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Recent mail brought a copy of the Summer issue (Segudo Trimestre 2017) of Mundo Empresarial to my desk, and it contains a multi-page interv...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Data access makes research on schools (and school choice) hard

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Courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act, an intrepid reporter lets us in on some of the emails about data access between the Louisiana D...
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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Kidney exchange in India: legal hurdles, and an app

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An interesting story from The Tribune in Chandigarh, about kidney exchange in India, mentions  the legal hurdles that must be overcome to t...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

AlphaBay dark marketplace shut down, and others spring up

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Here's the Telegraph: AlphaBay: World's largest dark web site is shut down "The US Government has shut down two of the worl...
Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Kidney Exchange Practices in Europe

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Here is a new report on kidney exchange in Europe: Kidney Exchange Practices in Europe: First Handbook of the COST Action CA15210: Europ...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Medical school seniors are applying to more and more residency positions

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Here's an article on the application process that precedes the medical match: Residency Placement Fever: Is It Time for a Reevalua...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Nesterly: matching student tenants to empty-nesters

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Helping Boomers Find Millennial Roommates LINDA POON  JUL 1, 2017 In a college town, students and older homeowners have a lot to offer ea...