Sunday, February 4, 2018

Super bowl thought by Kim Krawiec: football players are paid, why not kidney donors?

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While checking up on the super bowl, I'm reminded that Kim Krawiec posted this:  Super Bowl Week OpEd "As the Super Bowl appro...

Changing of the guard at Management Science (but papers on market design are solicited)

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Here's an email announcement from Yan Chen and Axel Ockenfels about the recent change of editors at Management Science: "We wou...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Risks of living kidney donation: a meta-analysis

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Better information is accumulating on the risks of living kidney donation. A meta-analysis has just been published January 30 in the Annals...
Friday, February 2, 2018

San Francisco Will Clear Thousands of Marijuana Convictions

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What happens when a formerly repugnant transaction goes from being illegal to being legal? The NY Times has the story: San Francisco Will...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Colleges that get a lot of applications read each one quickly (WSJ)

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How to deal with congestion?  Move fast...  Here's the story from the WSJ: Some Elite Colleges Review an Application in 8 Minutes (or...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Drug trafficking via the U.S. mail

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A recent Senate report (which I haven't seen) has generated a lot of news coverage to the effect that fentanyl, a Schedule II controlle...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Science talent search finalists (and some alumni)

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The    Regeneron Science Talent Search , which was sponsored by Westinghouse when I was in high school, has announced  its finalists this y...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Italy recommends Global Kidney Exchange to the World Health Organization

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Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) was presented  last week   in the executive session of the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN agency conc...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

How banks support payday lenders and check cashing services by dissing their low income customers

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Here's a story from the WSJ that I found disturbing (and which helps explain why many people choose to be "unbanked" and to p...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

2018 Tsinghua Conference on Behavioral, Experimental and Theoretical Economics (Tsinghua BEAT)

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Here's the call for papers with a Feb 1 deadline: Call for Papers : Tsinghua BEAT 2018 Dear Colleagues,  We are pleased to an...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Vermont legalizes marijuana

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The Washington Post has the story: Vermont is the first state to legalize marijuana through legislature "Gov. Phil Scott (R) signe...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Legal marijuana and crime reduction

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The Guardian channels an academic paper from the EJ: Here's the Guardian story: Legal marijuana cuts violence says US study, as medi...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Ninth Circuit rules that laws against prostitution are not unconstitutional

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The Washington Post has the best headline: They argued that prostitution is a constitutional right. Nice try, said federal court. "...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Peter Singer on the undersupply of opiods in the developing world

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There's been a lot of discussion of the oversupply of opioids in the U.S.  Here's a discussion of the undersupply in the developing...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Pursuing Global Kidney Exchange in Rome: photos

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I was recently in Rome, where a substantial group gathered (see below) to further the possibilities of Global Kidney Exchange (GKE). Part o...
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Sunday, January 21, 2018

The number of organ donors in Germany has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years.

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Rosemarie Nagel draws my attention to this article in Der Spiegel on transplantation in Germany: Transplantation Wieso werden in Deu...
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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Blood plasma in Canada: should compensation for donors be banned?

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I am one of the signatories of a long letter arguing that Canada (which imports most of it's blood plasma products from the U.S.) shoul...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Bob Wilson, Paul Milgrom and Dave Kreps win the Carty Award

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Game theory at Stanford:) Here's the press release from the National Academy of Science David M. Kreps , Stanford University...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Evolution of dating apps: OK Cupid requires mutual consent for messaging

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Slate reports (last month): OkCupid Users Have Long Had to Put Up With Unwanted Messages. That's About to Change "OkCupid announ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Analytic approaches to allocating organs for transplants

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Two recent items: Adapting a Kidney Exchange Algorithm to Align with Human Values by Rachel Freedman, Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-...