Friday, September 23, 2022

Choosing between public and private schools: vouchers in Arizona

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There's a fight over public versus private school funding in Arizona. Here's the background: Arizona OKs Biggest US School Voucher P...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Market design workshop at Iowa State University

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 I'll give a public talk this evening to open a market design workshop tomorrow and Saturday: Two-day Workshop: September 23-24, 2022 , ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Economists as Engineers: Public lecture at Iowa State University tomorrow

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  I'll be travelling today to Ames Iowa, to give a public lecture tomorrow evening at Iowa State University (and to attend a market desi...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Investment Incentives in Truthful Approximation Mechanisms by Akbarpour, Kominers, Li, Li and Milgrom

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Computationally intractable optimization problems often allow approximate solutions that are 'close enough' to the optimal solution....
Monday, September 19, 2022

Crowdsourcing organ transplant ethics

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 In Slate, an upbeat article about the ethical issues associated with deceased organ allocation and (before that) access to dialysis, and th...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Canadian Blood Services to start paying Canadian plasma donors

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  CBC news has the story, which seems to mark a turning point in a long struggle with repugnance for paying donors. Canadian Blood Services...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Non-directed organ donors and NLDAC financial support

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For some years I've been a member of the advisory group of the National Living Donor Assistance Center ( NLDAC ) which is authorized to...
Friday, September 16, 2022

A milestone and a stepping stone: 1 million U.S. organ transplants

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 Here's the story from the AP, about the 1,000,000th transplant in the U.S., a milestone reached last Friday: US counts millionth organ ...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Depreciated currency

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I'm flying home today from Argentina, where I took part in the TTS2022 international transplant conference.   I had to change dollars t...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

TTS2022 Awards--Congratulations

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  Today at TTS2022, prizes will be awarded.  One that I know is very well deserved, is to  Dr. Vivek Kute , for his extraordinary achievemen...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The First 52 Global Kidney Exchange Transplants: today at TTS2022 in Buenos Aires

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 Tomorrow at TTS2022 in Buenos Aires, Mike Rees will present The First 52 Global Kidney Exchange Transplants: overcoming multiple barriers t...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Access to transplantation around the world, at the International Congress of The Transplantation Society (TTS 2022) in Buenos Aires

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I'm attending the 29th International Congress of The Transplantation Society ( TTS 2022) | Buenos Aires - Argentina, and will speak in ...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Organ donor joke from the Edinburgh fringe

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 “ My dad suggested I register for a donor card. He’s a man after my own heart. ”  That's a joke by Masai Graham, who won the most popul...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Kidney exchange launched between the U.S. and Italy

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  Here's the announcement from Italy (in Italian), on the site of the Centro Nazionale Trapianti, the National Transplant Center:  Al vi...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Do (some) kidney donors have a right to donate?

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 Here's an article that considers whether some potential kidney donors, who have more appetite for risk than some transplant teams, migh...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Three living kidney donors talk about their experience

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 Tonight at 6pm Eastern, three donor stories from the National Kidney Donation Organization ( NKDO ) Click Here to Register
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Kidney exchange in China?

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 Here's a video about kidney exchange, proposing that it should be adopted in China. (The author does not reveal his/her identity.)  h...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Decriminalizing drugs at the head of the supply chain--Colombia

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 The criminalization of drugs has different consequences on different parts of the supply chain. Here's a harm reduction proposal from C...
Monday, September 5, 2022

Paul Milgrom on auctions for water rights

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 ZME Science (in Romania) interviews Paul Milgrom about water shortages (in California): Could auctions help California make better use of i...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Crowd control of misinformation, by limiting fast forwarding, by Jackson, Malladi and McAdams in PNAS

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  Here's a paper in PNAS about limiting the spread of misinformation by changing the network of information flows: Learning through the ...