Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Join the global call for change at DLE--Invitation to Cairo

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  After being invited to this week's  International Transplant Week in Egypt,  , I was invited to invite others.  (To hear my very brie...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Are transplants too scarce, or not scarce enough? A surprising debate about India

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 India, now the most populous country in the world, does the third highest number of kidney transplants in the world (although their rate of...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Economics and CS (AI+ML) in Ithaca in June: call for papers

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 Here's the announcement and call for papers from the Econometric Society 2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting June 16 - 17, 2026 Ithac...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Game theory in Brazil, July 26-Aug2: Call for papers

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 Marilda Sotomayor forwards the following call for papers: Game Theory scholar.  It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the ...
Friday, November 7, 2025

International Transplant Week in Egypt, 2025

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 I'm preparing to spend next week in Cairo at the Donate Life Egypt 2025 International Transplant Week , where I'll give a talk on T...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

School choice and performance gaps in England: a report by Burgess, Cantillon, Greaves and Cavallo

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 Estelle Cantillon writes to tell me about her new report with Simon Burgess , Ellen Greaves , and  Mariagrazia Cavallo   on changing the...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Xenotransplants go to (clinical) trial

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  Yesterday's post was about a man who received a pig kidney as an exceptional "compassionate use" case. But now some formal ...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Xenotransplant of a pig kidney lasted nine months before failing (a new record)

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 No xenotransplant has lasted a year yet, but that's a target that now seems to be within reach for kidneys. (Kidneys are a more forgivi...
Monday, November 3, 2025

David Gale (1921-2008) remembered, with a (belated) 100th birthday volume

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 David Gale (1921-2008) was honored recently with the publication of a volume commissioned at the time of his 100th birthday.  The editors r...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Surrogacy, and escrow accounts

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  Surrogacy contracts involve a long term relationship, focused on a nine month pregnancy.  So commercial surrogacy depends on secure financ...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

European Economic Review Summer School in Experimental and Behavioral Economics, June 1-4, 2026.

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    It's never too late to learn about experiments: 3rd   European Economic Review Summer School  in Experimental and Behavioral Economi...

Experimental economics at the University of Pittsburgh

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 I recently had the opportunity to visit my old haunts at the University of Pittsburgh, and took part in a reopening and re-dedication of th...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Market Design Impact Award to Hassidim, Romm, and Shorrer

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 The Hebrew University breaks the news with this congratulatory message : "Congratulations to our very own Assaf Romm  and coauthors! ...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Funeral expense reimbursement to enhance organ donation and transplantation , by Chan and Sweat

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 It's legal to pay funeral expenses for whole-body donors (for research) but not for organ donors for transplantation.  Here's a cal...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The role of 'public entrepreneurs' in city government (and a shoutout to Jeremy Lack)

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With a focus on New York City's mayoral election  next week,  this Bloomberg.com column considers things that mayors can do, including  ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Yuck! and the long journey to a book title

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  As I mentioned in yesterday's post , I'm working on the galleys of my forthcoming book, Moral Economics . This has reminded me o...
Monday, October 27, 2025

New book! Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work--forthcoming!

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   I have a forthcoming book, (at long last) and it now even has a cover. (Note the halo:)  I'm reading the galleys right now...   Moral...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars (forthcoming in the AER)

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 Economics seminars are complex, and not always tea parties. Here's a detailed look, by many investigators, via the analysis of many aud...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Enhancing Scientific Integrity in the Social and Behavioral Sciences--Nominate an Expert for an NAS workshop

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  The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are soliciting nominations for a workshop on  Enhancing Scientific Integrity...