Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Rates of organ donation in countries with presumed consent versus those with explicit consent

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Here's an illuminating figure from the 2018 paper Organ Donation and Transplantation in Canada     Sonya Norris, Legal and Social ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Kidney Exchange: an opportunity for cooperation in North America: Canadian Transplant Summit

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I'll be speaking tomorrow  at the  2019 Canadian Transplant Summit , giving two talks. In the morning, I'll speak at the Canadian...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Congrats to Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty"

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences  has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 201...

A kidney exchange chain initiated by a deceased donor, in Italy

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  Deceased Donor–initiated Chains First Report of a Successful Deliberate Case and Its Ethical Implications Furian, Lucrezia MD1; Corneli...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Matching markets @ Simons Institute are multi-disciplinary

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Two recent blog posts at the algorithmic game theory blog Turing's Invisible Hand remark on the multi-disciplinary nature of modern mat...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Medal of Honor

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Some months ago I bookmarked a piece in the Wall Street Journal, about the Medal of Honor , the U.S. military's highest combat award.  ...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Followup on Robert Kraft: disappearing sex trafficking in Florida

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Vanity Fair has a followup on the widely publicized Florida investigation of sex trafficking that included the arrest of Patriots owner Rob...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

2019 ESA North American Meetings

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The 2019 Economic Science Association (ESA) North American meetings will be held in Los Angeles, California at the campus of Loyola Marymo...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Very quick questions and answers about market design and experimental economics--video

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Two minutes of Q&A from my recent visit to Lancaster:
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Transplantation rates for patients in non-profit versus for-profit dialysis centers

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From JAMA,September 10, 2019  Volume 322, Number 10: J::AMA September 10, 2019 Volume 322, Number 10 Association Between Dialysis Facili...
Monday, October 7, 2019

Different misconduct in sperm donation

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One reason it is rewarding to study unregulated markets is that it gives you some idea of why some regulation might be desirable.  The grow...

Ride sharing and shared rides as public transportation: Via

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The ride sharing company in the U.S. that is perhaps closest to a public transportation model is Via , which offers shared rides from near ...
Sunday, October 6, 2019

Conversation on repugnant markets, in French: Quand la science économique sauve des vies, conversation avec Alvin Roth, prix Nobel d’économie 2012

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An account of my brief interview with The Conversation is published in both English and French.  It mostly concerned repugnant markets.  He...
Saturday, October 5, 2019

Auctions of poker and slot machine licenses in Victoria, by Plott, Cason, Gillen, Lee and Maron

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The Design, Experimental Laboratory Testing and Implementation of a Large, Multi-Market, Policy Constrained, State Gaming Machines Auction...
Friday, October 4, 2019

Eric Maskin on Rank Choice Voting (RCV) in Massachusetts and beyond

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Eric Maskin, the Harvard University Professor and Nobel laureate in Economics, gave two talks at Stanford this week.  The first was the joi...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

Parag Pathak celebrated in Science News

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Science News advises us that Parag Pathak is worth watching ... Parag Pathak uses data and algorithms to make public education fairer Af...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Repeal of motorcycle helmet laws increases deceased donor transplants: Dickert-Conlin, Elder and Teltser in AEJ:Applied

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I imagine that a law that anyone who dies while riding a motorcycle without a helmet is automatically considered to be registered as a will...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

College athletes can be paid for endorsements in California: an end to an American repugnance?

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College sports in the U.S. has long been an anomaly--our overseas colleagues must run colleges for reasons other than sports, but in the U....
Monday, September 30, 2019

Ranked-choice voting in Maine, and elsewhere

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From the Atlantic: A Step Toward Blowing Up the Presidential-Voting System Maine’s adoption of ranked-choice voting for the 2020 general...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

In Memoriam: Martin Shubik

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Ben Mattison and Kerry DeDomenico at Yale have sent around an email pointing to some brief remembrances of Martin Shubik from his friends, ...