Sunday, March 10, 2024

Does high pay equal "undue inducement"? An experiment by Sandro Ambuehl

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  Here's an experiment about repugnant transactions, by Sandro Ambuehl . Ambuehl, Sandro, " An experimental test of whether financi...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Michael Kremer on market design by economists (and other essays on developments in economics)

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  The March issue of the IMF publication Finance and Development ( F&D ) contains this essay by Michael Kremer. ECONOMICS AND INNOVATION...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantation

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  The father of brain death has died. Here's the NYT obit. Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89 . His willi...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Increasing kidney transplants by reducing discards of risky kidneys

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  Kidneys from deceased donors are too often discarded. Dr. Joshua Mezrich , a transplant surgeon at U. Wisconsin, writes in Stat about how ...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

France amends its constitution to protect access to abortion

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  The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.Wade and end a constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. prompted France to am...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Oregon is re-criminalizing drugs

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 The war on drugs is unforgiving, and neither criminalization nor decriminalization seems to be a winning strategy.  The NYT has the latest ...
Monday, March 4, 2024

50th anniversary of Shapley and Scarf (1974), and of the Journal of Mathematical Economics

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Now available online is the first in what I understand will be a series of papers commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Mathe...
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Telephones and telephone operators, as telephone exchanges became automated

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  Earlier experiences in automation may be helpful in thinking about current technologies. Here's a paper about automation that replaced...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Planet money plus-- interview on repugnant transactions

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 Behind a paywall :(, but here's some more of the interview that I did with Planet Money last month: Extended Play: Al Roth on money and...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Medical aid in dying--the ongoing debate in Britain

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 The Guardian has this opinion piece, connected to the current debate in England about medically assisted dying, and the slippery slope: I’m...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Education (and age) versus fertility in the U.S. marriage market

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  Markets change over time, including the marriage market.  American marriages have become more assortative in recent years, and it appears ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Global pacemaker retransplantation

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  There are innovative approaches to global health care.  Here is one, that involves reusing pacemakers recovered from deceased donors and r...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Stanford Impact Labs announces support for kidney exchange in Brazil, India, and the U.S.

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  Stanford Impact Labs has announced an investment designed to help the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) i ncrease access to kidne...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Prison gangs, in Latin America and in the U.S.

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 It's one thing to be able to capture and confine prisoners. When gangs are involved, it's quite another thing to control the prison...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Mark Satterthwaite interviewed by Sandeep Baliga (video)

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After listening to this interview with the great Mark Satterthwaite, I now understand the independent origins of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite t...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Foreign surrogacy in Denmark is becoming less restrictive

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 Above the Law has the story: Denmark Passes New Pro-Surrogacy Regulations. The new rules in Denmark focus on two areas of surrogacy.  By EL...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Directed and semi-directed living donation of kidneys: a current debate in Israel and elsewhere

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  Israel leads the world in per capita living kidney donation. A good part of that comes from the work of Matnat Chaim (gift of life), an or...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Directed deceased donation of organs for transplant. (Legal in U.S. but not yet in Europe.)

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 It is legal in the U.S. for a deceased donor organ for transplant to be directed to a particular recipient, if the recipient is compatible ...