Friday, September 10, 2021

Matching theory in the September issue of Games and Economic Behavior

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  The September 2021 issue of Games and Economic Behavior ( Volume 129, Pages 1-590 ) has five papers on matching theory. In the order in wh...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

Kidney exchange, in Microeconomic Insights

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  The team at Microeconomic Insights has published an easy to read summary of my just published paper with Itai Ashlagi in the September is...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Participating in a Covid challenge trial: a participant's experience

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 The WSJ's Jenny Strasburg has another story on British challenge trials of Covid-19: Researchers Infect Volunteers With Coronavirus, Ho...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Covid reduced transplants worldwide (but relatively little in the U.S.)

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  The Covid pandemic reduced transplants, more in some countries than in others.  Here's a survey from  the Lancet, covering 22 countrie...
Monday, September 6, 2021

Contested forms of marriage: child marriage (and signaling), bride exchange (watta satta), and capture (ala kachuu in Kyrgyz, zij poj niam in Hmong)

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  Recent changes in child marriage laws in some U.S. states have reminded me that it is just one of many forms of contested marriage around ...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

Australia and England swap millions of vaccine doses

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Barter can increase efficiency. The Financial Times has the story: Australia strikes deal to ‘swap’ 4m vaccine doses with UK   by William La...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

Adam Smith and kidney exchange, by Walter Castro and Julio Elias

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 Here's a blog post with supportive quotes from Adam Smith (who if he had thought specifically about kidney exchange in The Theory of Mo...
Friday, September 3, 2021

Long-Term Survival after Kidney Transplantation by Hariharan, Israni, and Danovitch in the NEJM

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  Here's a review article from the New England Journal of Medicine, documenting the increasing rates of long term kidney transplant outc...
Thursday, September 2, 2021

Global Kidney Chains in PNAS by Nikzad, Akbapour, Rees and Roth

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 Here's an article about extending kidney exchange globally. It's published as an open access article, so you can find the whole pap...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Redesigning the market for American medical residencies

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 The medical community has spent a good deal of effort over the past two years conferring about difficulties in the transition from medical ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Challenge trials for Covid-19 Delta variant

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 Before the development of the first Covid vaccines, there was a good deal of discussion about the appropriateness of testing vaccines with ...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Symposium on Research Integrity: Replicability and outright malfeasance. November 24 in Berlin

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  Research integrity has been in the news lately, concerning low levels of replicability in some kinds of research, together with more inten...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Market design podcast on The Demand Side with Edward Brown

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 Here's a podcast in which I'm interviewed by Edward Brown on The Demand Side about market design:  https://open.spotify.com/episo...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

Bob Wilson's autobiography is now available on the Nobel Prize website

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 Here it is:  https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2020/wilson/biographical/ "Robert B. Wilson, Biographical "1.Ove...
Friday, August 27, 2021

OnlyFans announces then reverses a ban on explicit sexual content

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  Here's a story from the Guardian, following the reported decision of the website OnlyFans to ban certain sexually explicit content, a...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

The Limits of the Markets - Commodification of Nature and Body, reviewed in OEconomia

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 The journal OEconomia has a review of the book  Élodie Bertrand, Marie-Xavière Catto and Alicia-Dorothy Mornington (eds), Les limites du ma...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Opioid prescription and curtailment are associated with increased rates of suicide among rural veterans:

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 Chronic pain, followed by prescription of opioid pain medicines, is sometimes followed by opioid addiction.  A recent NBER working paper sh...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Unraveling for consulting: recruiting for next summer has begun.

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 Here's a (gated) story from Business Insider, saying that big consulting firms have already started recruiting college juniors for Summ...
Monday, August 23, 2021

A podcast about (and for) kidney donors

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Here's a new podcast, that now has several episodes. Donor Diaries Podcast "Shining a light on the guts and the glory of living org...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Disruptive marketplaces in HBR, by Clifford Maxwell and Scott Kominers

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 Here's a Harvard Business Review article on markets that create new kinds of transactions. What Makes an Online Marketplace Disruptive?...