Thursday, August 8, 2019

Indian lower house of Parliament (Lok Sabha) passes bill banning commercial surrogacy

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A bill banning commercial surrogacy (and restricting who can take part in altruistic surrogacy) has passed through the Lok Sabha, the lower...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Large strategy sets: college financial aid, and automatic weapons

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One of the big lessons of market design is that participants have big strategy sets, so that many kinds of rules can be bent without being ...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Diversity of methodology in science, interview with E.O. Wilson

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed interviews E.O. Wilson on, among other things, diversity in scientific approaches: A Legendary Scientist Sound...
Monday, August 5, 2019

Lovely short film about the resident match by Dr. Trisha Pasricha

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Here's a charming and insightful 11 minute video by the remarkable physician-filmmaker Dr. Trisha Pasricha , about the experience of g...
Sunday, August 4, 2019

Reducing discards of deceased donor kidneys

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Some changes that could lead to transplantation of more deceased donor kidneys: KAPP Implements Recommendations from NKF Kidney Discards ...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

Sharing good health: a nice turn of phrase about kidney exchange

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This struck me as a nice turn of phrase: On Paired Kidney Donation: ‘ Good Health is Never Something I Thought I Could Share ’ By REBECC...
Friday, August 2, 2019

How Market Design Emerged from Game Theory, by Roth and Wilson in the JEP

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This paper was quite fun to collaborate on, with my dissertation advisor Bob Wilson... How Market Design Emerged from Game Theory: A Mutu...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

How much do Kidney Exchanges Improve Patient Outcomes? Keith Teltser in AEJ-Policy

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Do Kidney Exchanges Improve Patient Outcomes? By Keith F. Teltser American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2019, 11(3): 427–453 https...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Mark Kleiman (1951-2019)

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From the NY Times: Mark Kleiman, Who Fought to Lift Ban on Marijuana, Dies at 68 "Kelly Kleiman, his sister and only immediate survi...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Speed bumps for high frequency trading

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From the WSJ: More Exchanges Add ‘Speed Bumps,’ Defying High-Frequency Traders Over a dozen financial markets plan mechanisms that impos...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Operational experience of kidney exchange with the Alliance for Paired Donation (APD)

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Like having children, the hard work of market design doesn't end at conception, or even at birth, it's an ongoing process, particul...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

Sperm selection

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I've blogged before about selection of sperm donors , but here's a story from the NY Times about the selection of sperm itself: ...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Compensation of kidney donors in Chile: an estimate of benefits

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A look into a possible future, from the December 2019 issue of the Latin American Economic Review: An analysis of economic incentives to ...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Removing disincentives to kidney donation, by McCormick et al. in J.Am.Soc.Nephrology

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Here's the latest paper in an illuminating series on the costs and consequences of kidney donation and transplantation: McCormick F,...