Thursday, May 22, 2025

Susan Athey on biggish data and machine learning

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 Susan Athey is interviewd in JAMA: How an Economist’s Application of Machine Learning to Target Nudges Applies to Precision Medicine    by ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

There's a gray market for diabetes supplies

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 High prices and inadequate medical insurance force some patients to get their diabetes monitoring supplies second hand. Here's a sugges...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

"Pocket listings" in residential real estate

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 After recent antitrust rulings regarding residential real estate sales, big brokers are regrouping: Yahoo finance has the story The real es...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Notes from Messina (kidney exchange and the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti)

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 We traveled last week from Prague to Sicily, for the Matching in Practice workshop in  Messina, which was rich in kidney exchange. I was...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Notes from Prague (kidney exchange, market design, and progress on a new book)

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I flew back to California yesterday, after spending some time in Czechia and Italy talking about kidney exchange.  Here is a video of the pu...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Wine barrels, barrel brokers, and tariffs

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 Wine barrels are traded and reused internationally. The Guardian has the story: Stained, warped and terroir rich: the global and shockingly...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Chronic diseases in the U.S.

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 The top three chronic diseases--Hypertension, Obesity, and Diabetes--all contribute to the fourth, Kidney Disease. How Chronic Disease Beca...