Sunday, February 28, 2010

Living Liver and Kidney Donation

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The American Journal of Transplantation has assembled a "virtual issue" of articles they have published on various aspects of live...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Herb Scarf explains mathematical economics

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Herb Scarf (who certainly knows) explains what is mathematical economics to a Humanities audience. His powerpoint slides for that talk are ...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

The Future of Same Sex Marriage

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The University of San Francisco Law Review's Spring Symposium, held today, is on The Future of Same-Sex Marriage . I like the sound of t...

Stability may be hard to achieve in decentralized matching

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So says a paper by Muriel Niederle and Leeat Yariv : Decentralized Matching with Aligned Preferences Abstract. We study a simple model of a...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Compatible pairs in kidney exchange

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The question of whether compatible patient-donor pairs should be invited to take part in kidney exchange is gaining some exposure with rece...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Market design at Yahoo!

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Here's a project description from Yahoo! Research: Microeconomics and Market Design By Michael Schwarz and David Reiley What are the ef...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Choosing schools (in NYC and SF)

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I've written elswhere about the school choice process for public schools in San Francisco and for high schools in New York City . But, r...
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Determining death for deceased organ donation

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Darshak Sanghavi, writing a while ago in the NY Times Sunday Magazine, discusses When Does Death Start? "Organ transplantation must abi...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Kim Krawiec on selling virginity

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Kim Krawiec has a post commenting on recent news stories and linking to a new paper: Like A Virgin? We Sell That Here! "A few days ago,...
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Beer legally for sale in another Mississippi county

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Another repugnant transaction bites the dust: A Voting Result That Faulkner Could Drink To "NEW ALBANY, Miss. — There was a vote here l...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

A National kidney exchange takes another tentative step forward

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UNOS issued the following press release on Friday: Participants Named for National Pilot Project for Kidney Paired Donation "Four organ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Sipping lattes while bearing arms

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A NY Times editorial suggests that coffee drinking while carrying is repugnant. (Background: it's legal to carry unconcealed weapons in...

Books about markets for body parts (for and against)

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Below are a mix of books, some scholarly some popular, mostly harvested by clicking on the Amazon links "people who bought this book al...
Friday, February 19, 2010

College admissions in England

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In England, universities faced with unexpectedly many applicants are raising the grades required for admission, which is apparently regarded...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

SF School Board Meeting, Feb 17: new choice system

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At the latest public meeting of the San Francisco Board of Education (last night, Wednesday, Feb. 17), the commissioners and the public were...
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Why isn't the queue longer for deceased donor kidneys?

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There are approximately 80,000 people signed up on the waiting list for deceased donor kidneys in the U.S., and this list has been getting l...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Cat stew

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Italian Food TV Host Under Fire For "Succulent" Cat Stew Recommendation (VIDEO) "Leading Italian food expert, writer and TV h...

Matrimony and dating sites with attitude

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The NY Times reports on the market for online dating and marriage sites that have ideas about who should be matched with whom: Better Loving...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Girls and the Little League

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An obituary of Judge Sylvia Pressler reminds us of some recent history: NJ Judge Who Opened Little League to Girls Dies "While serving ...

Ending "Don't ask don't tell" in the US military

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The day when gay and lesbian soldiers, sailors and airmen will be able to serve openly is coming closer, and Admiral Mike Mullen has called ...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Changes in repugnant transactions are sometimes gradual

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Years from now we may look back on the gradual change in the status of same sex marriage , for example, or the ability of gays and lesbians ...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Ten at one blow

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One further thought on National Donor Day. The famous fairy tale " Seven at one blow " reminds us of the power of a succinct summa...
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Today is (also) National Donor Day

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Happy Valentine's Day! Isn't it good to love and be loved? Food for thought: Today is also National Donor Day . " February 14 i...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Bioethics and bioethicists

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Sally Satel on bioethicists: "Ask almost any hospital physician about bioethicists and you will get, in reliable sequence, an eye roll,...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Cheating on CS homeworks, and social pressure

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The Temptation to Cheat in Computer Science Classes at Stanford is apparently great (just cut and paste some code if your assignment isn...
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Experiments on moral intuitions

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As I'm not at all sure what is involved in judgments of repugnance, I follow various lines of work, including the very interesting inter...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Anti-social claiming of parking spots in South Boston (before snow has started)

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A social norm in South Boston that allows people to reserve public parking spots that they have dug out of the snow is unraveling, the Globe...
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Dispute resolution by kidnapping in Yemen

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Al Jazeera reports: Abductions rife in lawless Yemen "The government of Yemen has had to deal with years of severe internal conflicts i...

Iran's nuclear program, and incentives

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A new paper argues that Iran's leaders have succeeded in making Iran's nuclear program a protected transaction , that may not respon...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Job search in Japan

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The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: In Bleak Economy, Japanese Students Grow Frustrated With Endless Job Hunt (subscription required...
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The market for lawyers, a modest proposal

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Ashish Nanda at the Harvard Law School has a modest proposal for how the jobmarket for new associates at large law firms should be organized...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Jerusalem summer school in economic theory

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The 21st Jerusalem Summer School in Economic Theory will be on market design writ large, namely Political Economy , from June 25-July 6, wit...

The market for history professors

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Robert Townsend of the American Historical Association reports on A Grim Year on the Academic Job Market for Historians . "The number o...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Sex ratio and competition, in China and American colleges

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With more than 120 boys born for every 100 girls in China, parents of boys know that their sons will face a competitive marriage market. Sha...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

An unexpectedly repugnant transaction: singing "My Way" in the Philippines

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A NY Times story on karaoke in the Philippines is full of interesting and unexpected detail: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord "...
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RepoMen (the movie)

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Joshua Gans points me to the trailer for the upcoming movie RepoMen . It touches on both repugnance and organ transplantation: Synopsis In t...

Australia to Lift Ban on Xenotransplants

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Australia to Lift Ban on Animal Transplants "Australia will join some 14 other countries -- including Japan, New Zealand and the United...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Unraveling in college football

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We're used to hearing of career decisions by very young basketball players, but there's been a tradition in football of waiting unti...

Ingredient lists, and farmed fish

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Consumer protection laws work in strange ways, but one thing they do fairly well is to require that ingredients be listed on processed food....
Friday, February 5, 2010

Market Design conference at the NBER, October 8-9 2010

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Susan Athey and Parag Pathak have circulated the following email. The National Bureau of Economic Research workshop on Market Design is a fo...

Would Professor Moriarty have invented an eBay, a Paypal or a Craigslist?

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Professor Moriarty was, of course, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis (or was it the other way around)? I ask the question in the title of this po...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Mentoring (and a pet peeve: maybe women should be athena-ed?)

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There are lots of reasons to think that young employees of many kinds may benefit from mentoring , and, because networks of various sorts ma...
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