Thursday, September 10, 2020

Plasma in Canada, and repugnant transactions--a podcast interview

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 I was recently interviewed by Kate van der Meer, a Canadian patient affected by the plasma shortage of 2019. Her experience inspired her to...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Fuhito Kojima wins the 2021 Japanese Economic Association Nakahara Prize

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  Congratulations to Fuhito Kojima, who is the 2021 winner of the Nakahara Prize of the Japanese Economic Association , which is awarded eac...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Child marriage in Somalia

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 The Guardian has the story: 'A race against time': the new law putting Somalia's children at risk of marriage :  Child marriage...
Monday, September 7, 2020

Human infection (challenge) trials for a covid-19 vaccine--Reason magazine interviews Josh Morrison (video)

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 Reason magazine has a video story about human challenge trials, starring Josh Morrison, the founder of 1Day Sooner.  I make some comments a...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

Transplant transport: direct commercial flights boost deceased donor transplants, by Wang, Zheng, and Dai

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 Alex Chan draws my attention to this paper on airline transport of kidneys for transplant: Does Transportation Mean Transplantation? Impact...

Taboo Trades: a new podcast by Kim Krawiec

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 Who better to talk about forbidden markets than Kim Krawiec?  Her new podcast is off to a great start. Taboo Trades Kimberly D Krawiec ...
Saturday, September 5, 2020

Paul Milgrom celebrates his 100,000th Google cite

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 100,000 and counting. Paul Milgrom on Google Scholar
Friday, September 4, 2020

The Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation has announced its Donor Protection Program

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The Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation has announced the details of its Donor Protection Program "The APKD protects a donor’s finance...
Thursday, September 3, 2020

Peter Cramton on the retail electricity market in California

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 Peter Cramton* is an astute observer of electricity markets.  Here's his op-ed in the San Diego Union-Tribune: Commentary: My monthly e...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Who Gets In, and Why--an inside look at college admissions

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Here's an essay from the WSJ, adapted from a forthcoming book with an evocative title, “ Who Gets In and Why , by Jeffrey Selingo . The...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Matching inequality and strategic behavior under the Boston mechanism: Evidence from China's college admissions by Wu and Zhong

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 Here's a paper that analyses the immediate acceptance ("Boston") algorithm that was in use in China's college admissions ...
Monday, August 31, 2020

The econometrics of deceased kidney donation

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Two papers have made me think about the power of econometric methods applied to studies of medical issues related to matching deceased donor...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Profile of Amy Finkelstein in the PNAS

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 Profile of Amy N. Finkelstein  by Jennifer Viegas "“It is a very exciting time to be an economist,” says Amy Finkelstein, a professor ...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Poets and Quants celebrates Professor Övül Sezer

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Two days ago I received a note of encouragement by email from  Övül Sezer , a former student   in my Harvard class on experimental economics...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Surrogacy in the time of covid travel restrictions

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 The NY Times has the story: Mothers, Babies Stranded in Ukraine Surrogacy Industry--Virus travel bans are wreaking havoc on surrogacy agenc...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

School choice with common preferences and incomplete information admits a winner's curse, by Kloosterman and Troyan

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 Suppose that schools have an intrinsic quality that would affect the preferences of all students if they knew it, but some students are bet...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Information from the AEA on this year's new Ph.D. job market

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Here's an announcement that came by email from the American Economic Association: Webinar on the new Ph.D. Job Market, hosted ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Surrogacy and citizenship in the U.S.

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 Some rules seem clear: anyone born in the U.S. is an American citizen, as is any child of an American parent.  But in these partisan times,...
Monday, August 24, 2020

The Canadian Resident Matching Service: a history

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 Here's a brief history of the Canadian medical residency match: Gallinger J, Ouellette M, Peters E, Turriff L. CaRMS at 50: Making the ...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

More on Deceased donors as non‐directed donors in kidney exchange chains

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I anticipate that we  will be reading more in the future about kidney exchange chains started by a deceased donor kidney.  In the meantime, ...