Monday, March 9, 2026

Kidney exchange developments in India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Germany

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 Here are recent reports on kidney exchange from  India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Germany.  Atul Agnihotri:  SOMETHING REMARKABLE IS HAPPENI...
Sunday, March 8, 2026

Big drop in international students coming to US (particularly from India)

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  The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story: The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought   By Karin Fischer       ...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Work from home increases fertility

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  Here's a recent paper showing that work from home (WFH) increases fertility, expecially if both couples work from home.  The proposed ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Medical training becomes less desirable in abortion-restricting states

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 Here's a new study of applications to medical residency programs, suggesting that medical training has become less desirable in states ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

A philosopher interviews economists about rational choice

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A hardcover copy of this book of interviews (of economists, by a philosopher) arrived in my mail the other day, and I'm enjoying it. It...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Nick Bloom discusses work from home

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  Econ To Go is a Stanford series in which Neale Mahoney , the director of SIEPR, interviews an economist. In this one he interviews the in...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Summer school in Economic Theory in Jerusalem (28 June- 7 July 2026)

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 The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is once again planning its long-running summer school in ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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  Here's the announcement from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences*: Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize   “To truly u...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

An anti-facist open letter from 23 retired Harvard Business School professors

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Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum.  Elections need to be defended.  Here's an open letter fr...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Ed Peskowitz (1944-2026)

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 After an eventful life, with major accomplishments in business and philanthropy, Ed Peskowitz succumbed to kidney failure this week.  I met...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Privacy vs. security: doorbell cameras (and Ring's Superbowl ad)

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There's a tension between privacy (some of it constitutionally protected)  and security, involving everything from street crime to terro...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Kidney exchange in India (one minute video)

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In India, which already does the third most kidney transplants in the world (after the US and China), physicians and surgeons are making gre...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

50th Anniversary of Mathematics of Operations Research (and 50 papers, one for each year)

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  MOR is a journal that published its first issue only two years after I finished my Ph.D., and Bob Aumann was the first editor of its Game ...