Sunday, October 10, 2021

Death with dignity in Colombia, and a last minute reversal (Updated)

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  The Washington Post has the story (followed by new developments at the very last minute): She’s 51, a mother and a devout Catholic. She pl...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Peter Lorentzen interviews me about market design (podcast)

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 Peter Lorentzen interviews me about market design , and my book Who Gets What and Why. (We have an interesting conversation on market desig...
Friday, October 8, 2021

Repugnance watch: Dog (as) food in Korea--opposition from the President, amidst growing pet ownership

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  Here's the story from the Guardian: South Korean president suggests ban on eating dog meat. Moon Jae-in, a dog-lover, says ‘time has c...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

Market design in La Republica

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 In anticipation of the Econometric Society meeting in Colombia later this month, I was interviewed by La Republica. The interview was in E...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Indian Society of Organ Transplantation 2021 Annual Meeting, Oct 7-10

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 31st Annual Conference of The Indian Society of Organ Transplantation 7th to 10th October 2021 GRAND HYATT LULU BOLGATTY CONVENTION CENTER...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Fuhito Kojima and I will discuss improving social welfare with matching theory in a Nikkei Business webinar this evening

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Fuhito Kojima and I will participate in a Nikkei Business Zoom webinar on The Future of Management 2030 , in English and Japanese (I think t...
Monday, October 4, 2021

More on the UAE-Israel kidney exchange

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If you're just tuning in, you can follow the story  of the kidney exchange between the UAE and Israel  here . The pairs who exchanged ki...
Sunday, October 3, 2021

Technology and Equality in the Digital Era--Luohan Academy

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 Last week I participated in a Luhohan Academy discussion called  Boosting Shared Prosperity: Technology and Equality in the Digital Era Spe...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

UAE as a natural hub for international/global kidney exchange

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  T here are excellent hospitals in the United Arab Emirates that can perform kidney transplants, and they are prepared to do kidney exchang...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Stanford celebrates Itai Ashlagi and the UAE-Israel kidney exchange

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Here's a Stanford story celebrating Itai Ashlagi 's role in this summer's UAE-Israel kidney exchange. (His matching software is ...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Kidney Exchange between Israel and the UAE (in USA Today, yesterday)

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  I spent a week in the UAE this summer, in connection with a three-pair kidney exchange between the UAE and Israel.  (The UAE is a natural ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Marcella Alsan and Jesse Shapiro are 2021 MacArthur Fellows

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Two economists, Marcella Alsan at Harvard and Jesse Shapiro at Brown have been recognized for their innovative and influential work. (Thes...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Liver transplantation in the Middle East

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  Here's a chapter on transplantation in a book about liver cancer.  The countries in the Middle East that can do liver transplants can ...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers

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  Here's a 'career column' from Nature, with advice that I think academic advisors should keep in mind, especially in view of th...

Doctors and guns

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  Americans are divided about  guns, and so are American doctors. While the American Medical Association regards guns as a public health cri...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Stanford celebrates Irene Lo

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 Stanford's School of Engineering celebrates Irene Lo, in an interview and video: " Engineer   Irene Lo   studies markets, but not ...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

Muriel Niederle wins the 2021 Oskar Morgenstern Medal

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  Oskar Morgenstern medal for Muriel Niederle , September 24, 2021 Muriel Niederle from Stanford University is this year's winner of the...
Friday, September 24, 2021

The Transplantation Society reaffirms the value of organ donation and transplantation, even for the poor

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  You wouldn't think it would be news that TTS, The Transplantation Society, felt that transplantation is valuable for patients who need...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Police assignments by seniority in Chicago

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  Here's a recent NBER working paper reporting a study of the assignment of police officers in Chicago, where some officers can choose t...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Congratulations to 51 new Econometric Society Fellows of 2021

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  This year there are 51 new Fellows of the Econometric Society: Congratulations to our 2021 Fellows    Jaap Abbring, Tilburg University Chu...