Monday, December 2, 2024

IVF mistakes that would have confounded King Solomon

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 IVF helps many people welcome children into their families, but also makes possible mistakes that would have confounded King Solomon. Haare...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Workers' rights for sex workers in Belgium

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  Sex work isn't merely legal in Belgium, it's now recognized as work. The BBC has the story:   Belgium's sex workers get matern...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Britain moves towards legalizing medical aid in dying

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  The Guardian has the story: MPs vote for bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales Terminally ill adults with less than six mon...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Cheating on exams in India , and exam design suggestions from Spain

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 India, where government jobs are allocated based on scores on a variety of national exams, cheating is a big business. One form it takes is...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Walk free in NYC, where jaywalking is no longer a crime

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In NYC jaywalking is no longer a crime, or at least it won't be at the end of January, if I read the story correctly.  But I'm guess...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

The labor market for Ob-Gyn docs, in states that criminalize abortion

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 States that criminalize abortion (and hence also care for miscarriages) are losing obstetricians... The New Yorker has the story: The Texas...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Payments to physicians from medical vendors

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  A useful rule of thumb when studying the design of markets is that when you see many related rules against something, that something may s...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Medical conference code of conduct

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  Different fields have different conference cultures, and these change over time.  I've agreed to give a talk at a conference that phy...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

A medically aided death in New Jersey: Pat Koch Thaler

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 Following a full life, a peaceful end. Pat Koch Thaler, Sister to a Famed Mayor, Chose to Die on a Saturday Ms. Thaler, a former dean at N....
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Competition between drug testing and drug taking in bicycle racing

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 Some time ago the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) issued a report on performance enhancing drugs in bicycle racing, which make...
Friday, November 22, 2024

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap? Podcast from BYU radio.

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 Here's a podcast on the shortage of organs for transplant, and on the controversies about compensating organ donors, and plasma donors....
Thursday, November 21, 2024

If I don't do it someone else will: markets and morals

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  Here's a paper reporting an experiment that suggests that people are more willing to ignore the negative externalities they impose on ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

School choice, school quality, and student performance

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  School choice, which allows children to move away from neighborhood schools, doesn't by itself improve school quality, although it may...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

AI assisted job applications (and application screening)

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  NBC news has the story: AI is supposed to make applying to jobs easier — but it might be creating another problem Companies have touted ne...
Monday, November 18, 2024

What preferences are revealed by market designs? by Oğuzhan Çelebi (who is on the job market)

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Oğuzhan Çelebi is on the job market this year (listed on the job market websites of both MIT and Stanford where he's finishing a two y...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Opt-out defaults do not increase organ donation rates, in Public Health

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 No one said market design was going to be easy...(well, some people did, but it turns out it isn't.) Dallacker, M., L. Appelius, A. M. ...