Sunday, June 6, 2021

Global kidney exchange with Denmark, in the U.S.

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A Danish citizen with a willing but incompatible living donor, received a kidney exchange transplant in the U.S., through the Alliance for ...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

It's time to allow kidney exchange in Germany: Axel Ockenfels in the Handelsblatt

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  As I noted last month, there's a conclave on kidney transplantation at the end of June in Germany. Axel Ockenfels keeps the focus on ...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Advice for setting up a kidney exchange program

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 Advice from Italian doctors, on living kidney donation including kidney exchange, in the one year old journal Transplantology : Living Kid...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Realtors still have a few tricks up their sleeves--"Whisper listings"

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 It once looked as if the growth of the internet, and increased access to home listing databases, would substantially weaken the grip of lic...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Strategic issues with (combined) early and late matching, by Mumcu and Saglam

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   Here's a paper on early decision in college admissions. I read it with particular interest because of related discussions going on ri...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Domestic and foreign medical residents in the U.S.

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 From the Health Affairs blog: Graduate Medical Education Positions And Physician Supply Continue To Increase: Implications Of The 2021 Resi...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Covid vaccine congestion in France looks familiar

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France is some weeks behind the U.S. in delivering vaccines, but the script will look familiar to Americans. The  Financial Times has the st...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Vaccinating the whole world quickly turns out to be hard

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  As Covid vaccines became available, rich countries that had made early, advanced purchases at high prices had contracts that delivered ava...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21), Oct. 5-9 2021

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  "The inaugural ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21) aims to highlight work whe...
Friday, May 28, 2021

Kidney to Share book launch, Zoom recording

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  Last week I had the pleasure of joining the discussion of the book Kidney to Share   by Martha Gurshun & John Lantos.  It was on Zoom,...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Alejandro Martínez-Marquina defends his dissertation

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  Alejandro Martínez-Marquina defended his dissertation this week.   The three papers he chose for his dissertation are these: When a Town ...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

The internet hybrid of pornography and sex work on OnlyFans

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 Sex work is mostly  about in-person, one-on-one, personal encounters.  Pornography is mostly about publishing, whether in print or other me...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Payments for Covid vaccine

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 The NY Times has the story: Pakistan’s Private Vaccine Sales Highlight Rich-Poor Divide.  An inoculation push, plagued with limited supplie...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Transplantation across ethnic divisions in Israel

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  Transplantation sometimes makes for complicated stories. Kidney from Jew killed in mob violence goes to Arab woman.   By Hadas Gold and Mi...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

The black market in cactus

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 The NY Times has the story: Global Cactus Traffickers Are Cleaning Out the Deserts.  A recent raid in Italy involving rare Chilean species ...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

School choice in Sweden (and in Swedish), by Andersson and Roth

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  Tommy Andersson and I wade into the school choice debate in Sweden in the Dagens Samhalle, arguing in favor of unified enrollment and the ...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Journal of controversial ideas

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  Some ideas are controversial not just because some people think they are bad ideas, but because they think that they are the kinds of ide...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Payday loans: usury, or access to credit? by Allcott, Kim, Taubinsky and Zinman

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Payday loans and other expensive services to those without access to formal credit generate a good deal of repugnance and regulation (includ...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Kidney exchange in India: progress, then Covid

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  Here's a paper reporting, among other things, a long kidney exchange cycle in India.  But Covid has put a temporary halt to all that. ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Kidney to Share

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 The  Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics is sponsoring a presentation tomorrow of a new book, Kidney to Share .  It's written largely...