Thursday, December 7, 2017

Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics conference at Georgia State

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Here's the announcement: 5th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics , Dec 7-8, 2017 General Information Followi...

Same sex marriage is now legal in Australia

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From the NY Times: Australia Makes Same-Sex Marriage Legal " SYDNEY, Australia — Australia’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly to le...
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Temporary brothels in Britain

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The Guardian has the story: How ‘pop-up’ brothels transformed Britain’s suburban sex industry MPs are investigating a surge in flats bei...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Loss-of-earnings compensation for live organ donors in New Zealand

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The New Zealand law has gone into effect: Loss of earnings compensation for live organ donors "The Ministry of Health will be imple...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Voluntary participation in matching schemes--conference in March

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 Here's the announcement and call for papers: 14th workshop Matching in Practice March 16, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - March 17, 2018 @ 2:00 p...

The academic market for operations researchers

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Operations Academia  is a relatively new website, organized by a postdoctoral fellow in his free time (see below) whose purpose is to provi...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

Internet dating while Muslim

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The Guardian has the story: SingleMuslim.com: how the Yorkshire dating site transformed Muslim romance It is one of the biggest dating si...
Saturday, December 2, 2017

Limits of the market--conference in Paris (call for papers)

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CALL FOR PAPERS   “The limits of the market: commodification of nature and body”   « Les limites du marché : la marchandisation de la...
Friday, December 1, 2017

New AEA Journal--American Economic Review: Insights

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The American Economic Society announces a new journal today:  American Economic Review: Insights Here's the call for papers: The n...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Organ donation and transplantation data from around the world

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The International Registry in Organ Donation and Transplantation   maintains an informative international database . Here's a list of ...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

The welfare effects of centralized school choice in NYC, by Abdulkadiroglu, Agarwal and Pathak in the AER

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The Abdulkadiroglu, Agarwal and Pathak paper on the effects of school choice in NYC has now come out in the December 2017 AER ( 107(12): 36...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

The market for English language editing: Caveat emptor

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Those of us who can publish in our native language are fortunate, and so there is a useful market for editing services for non-native speak...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Enticing new graduates to become prison guards, British edition

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In the U.S., new college graduates are tempted into teaching in under-served schools through Teach for America , and in Britain through Tea...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Strategies to Increase the Donor Pool

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Here's a survey: Strategies to Increase the Donor Pool , by Michael A. Rees and David E. Fumo Kidney Transplantation, Bioengineering...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

Kidney disease in developing countries

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Kidney disease is a very big deal in poor countries as well as rich ones. Kidney Transplantation in Developing Countries by Goce Spasovs...
Friday, November 24, 2017

An 8-person chain in Chicago, with news coverage

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A non-directed donor chain at Northwestern, with pictures: U.S. News Sits In as Surgeons Carry Out an 8-Person Kidney Exchange "Four...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Signaling in resident and fellowship matches to reduce interview congestion

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An article by Dr. Joseph Bernstein in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (December 2017, Volume 475, Issue 12, pp 2845–2849 ) argue...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Kidney exchange in Mexico

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Here's the story of one of the first kidney exchange transplants in Mexico, as part of a global kidney exchange chain in the U.S. Dona...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Surrogacy in Australia

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From the blog Above the Law: A Terrible Ruling Leaves Thousands Of Children Without Legal Parents Even the judge acknowledged that his ru...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Who Gets What and Why in Vietnamese: Sách Ai được gì và tại sao

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Who Gets What and Why has come out in Vietnamese: Nobel Kinh tế Giáo sư Alvin Roth – Sách Ai được gì và tại sao (Who gets what and why) ...