Sunday, April 17, 2022

Lowell High School principal resigns in San Francisco, in latest setback for elite high school

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Elite public schools, which admit students by exam, are under attack in many places. In San Francisco, that would be Lowell high school, who...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of CERGE-EI: Supporting Excellence in Economic Research and Education in Post-Communist Societies

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In 1990, when I was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh (where I happily taught from 1982-1998), my colleague Jan Svenjar was in...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Future treatments for kidney failure

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  The future treatments of kidney failure are just around the corner, where it seems they have been for a long time. So it's perhaps app...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

#122 Game Theory and Market Design. "Unsiloed" podcast about Who Gets What and Why

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I'm interviewed by Greg La Blanc, on market design generally, using my book Who Gets What and Why as a takeoff point.   
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Assortative mating plus efficient wealth management in Norway, by Fagereng, Guiso & Pistaferri

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  Here's a recent NBER working paper that sheds some further light on how assortative mating leads to divergence in family wealth. (Appa...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Foster care in the U.S.

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  In the U.S., foster care isn't regarded as a profession (it's repugnant to pay foster parents, so they just get a stipend for chil...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Signaling in medical residencies in the upcoming 2023 season

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 One approach that is being adopted in applications for medical residencies is to allow signals of interest. Here's an announcement from...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Transplant science, transplant politics , and public perception--the case of living-donor livers

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  Liver transplants from living donors are on the increase in the U.S., so liver transplants are coming to more closely resemble kidney tran...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

"Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China," by Matthew P. Robertson, and Jacob Lavee in the AJT

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  Prior to 2015, it was legal in China to transplant organs recovered from executed prisoners. When I visited China in those days to talk ab...
Friday, April 8, 2022

Süleyman Kerimov defends his dissertation

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  Süleyman Kerimov defended his dissertation yesterday, in Stanford's MS&E department. He studies matching, and will teach at Rice ...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Money and repugnance

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  Readers of this blog are already familiar with the association between money and repugnance.  Check out this Saturday Morning Breakfast C...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Is open science just for those with abundant resources?

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 I applaud the movement towards open science, to make publications freely available, but I can generally pay the associated publication fees...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

More on the looming shortage of new antibiotics

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 From Medpage Today: Superbugs Are Getting Stronger— Our defenses are getting weaker   by David Thomas, MS, and Emily Wheeler  " There ...
Monday, April 4, 2022

Transplant wait lists and patient finances

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 Here's a disturbing commentary on how the regulation of transplant centers interacts with patient finances and the decision of who to p...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Kidney Paired Donation Chains Initiated by Deceased Donors

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  Starting kidney exchange chains with a deceased donor is a good idea whose time is coming.   Wen Wang, Alan B. Leichtman, Michael A. Rees,...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Science Talent Search in the schools, after 100 years

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 When I was in high school in the 1960's, I participated in a long-established student competition called the Science Talent Search, whi...
Friday, April 1, 2022

MIT reinstates standardized tests, to increase diversity

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 Here's the MIT announcement: We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles by Stu Schmill '86 in order to...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) support for lost wages and dependent care

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 NLDAC, the National Living Donor Assistance Center, is spreading the word on the new ways it can reimburse expenses incurred by living org...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Matching refugees to homes: Oxford celebrates Alex Teytelboym's work with HIAS

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Here's a timely short video from Oxford celebrating Alex Teytelboym 's work with the venerable refugee resettlement organization HIA...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Two courses on matching and market design in Stanford's MS&E department, by Ashlagi and Saberi (first meeting is today)

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Itai Ashlagi and    Amin Saberi are offering courses on matching theory and market design this quarter. First meetings are today, in the m...