Friday, May 31, 2019

Xenotransplants, Baby Fae, and the complex pioneering efforts of Dr. Leonard Bailey, RIP

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The recent death of Dr. Leonard Bailey (who performed the first successful heart transplant to an infant) reminded me of how so many ultima...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Alumni medals at Columbia

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I am a proud grad of the Columbia University School of Engineering, which I attended as an undergraduate from 1968-1971.  I'll be back ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Black markets in college graduation tickets

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Here's a seasonal story, from the Guardian; Need a college graduation ticket? There's a black market for that Tickets for New Yo...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Surrogacy and citizenship: bringing the babies home isn't always so easy

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Even the U.S., which is a center of surrogacy, employs outdated rules to determine which surrogate children born overseas are automatically...
Monday, May 27, 2019

California surrogacy

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Surrogacy serves all sorts of people, mostly couples who don't have a working womb between them. But, as Jenny Kleeman  reports in the ...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Same sex marriage comes to Taiwan

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Here's the NY Times story on the new law allowing marriage, and on still to be debated issues including family formation (adoption, sur...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Matching comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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I rely on comics to let me know important subjects to study (doesn't everyone?). Here's one from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ...

Match-Up 2019 in Switzerland, May 26-29

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Here's the program . (It contains abstracts following the schedule...) Sunday, May 26th 14:00 - 14:15    Conference Opening (Bettina...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Matching early when information is costly, by Grenet, He, and Kübler

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Here's a new paper on school matching that takes preference formation seriously: Decentralizing Centralized Matching Markets: Implic...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Vic Fuchs on the problems of employment-based health insurance, in JAMA

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Vic Fuchs, the dean of American health economists, argues that employment-based insurance has an assortment problem focused on high income ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Kidney exchange in India: the legal framework

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Last week in Ahmedabad I had a chance to interact with Dr. Vivek Kute and his colleagues at the Trivedi Institute, to better understand the...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Robot-assisted kidney transplantation in Ahmedabad, India.

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I just returned from a very interesting visit to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, part of which was at the Trivedi Institute of Transplantation S...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Management Science’s 65th Anniversary Conference, May 20-21, Boston University

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Management Science’s 65th Anniversary Conference May 20 – 21, 2019 Boston University Questrom School of Business "2019 marks the ...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Gail Cornwall responds to the recent NY Times story on SF schools

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Gail Cornwall, who follows San Francisco schools, replies to a recent article in the NY Times: A cautionary tale about linking school cho...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Yale SOM celebrates Vahideh Manshadi on the benefits of scale in kidney exchange

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In Yale Insights (from Yale SOM): Kidney Exchange Registries Should Collaborate to Save More Lives VAHIDEH MANSHADI "The results ...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Repugnant phrasing

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Japan's labor and immigration policies have been more restrictive than welcoming to an immigrant/migrant labor force.  So one can imagi...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Market design workshop, NBER October 18-19, 2019 in Cambridge.

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Here's the call for papers To:     NBER Market Design Working Group From:   Michael Ostrovsky and Parag Pathak The National Bureau...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Finding out what employers value in a candidate, without deception, by Kessler, Low and Sullivan

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Many experiments designed to detect how employers evaluate applications employ deception: artificial applications are sent to employers in ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Randomization in Economics: a history, by Julian Jamison

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Randomized experiments have a long history: The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences By:Julian C. Jamison JOUR...
Monday, May 13, 2019

PBS on Uber's economists

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Paul Solman interviews Uber economists (John Hall and others) and other economists (Susan Athey and Paul Oyer) on what economists do at Ube...