Thursday, April 8, 2010

Organ trafficking: a black market for kidneys

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Israeli police arrest suspected black market brokers, after complaints were made by unpaid donor/sellers. Reserve general suspected of organ...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Update on economics job market scramble

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Registration on the 2010 Economics Job Market Scramble for new Ph.D.s is now closed, and those who have registered will be able to view the...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The first kidney exchange in the U.S., and other accounts of early progress

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The Student BMJ (a student run affiliate of the British Medical Journal) has an article interviewing the pioneering surgeons who conducted t...
Monday, April 5, 2010

Sniping in auctions with substitutes

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On an auction site like eBay, many copies of the same good may be on offer for different auctions. A new sniping site, goSnipe , allows bidd...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Repugnant transactions in New Zealand: Easter Sunday sales

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The NZ Herald reports on Illegal Trading. "The number of shops found to be trading illegally over the Easter weekend appears to be sim...

Work hours of surgical residents

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The culture is changing to comply with the law, but it's hard. For doctors, a matter of time: MGH residents cut back to 80-hour weeks, b...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Presumed consent and deceased donor organ donation

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Kim Krawiec writes : "Duke sociologist (and Crooked Timber blogger) Kieran Healy visited my Taboo Trades and Forbidden Markets semin...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Fortune-telling is repugnant in Saudi Arabia (and a capital crime)

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This headline caught my eye this morning: Lebanese Not to Be Beheaded Friday for Witchcraft "A Lebanese man condemned to death for witc...

Renal data: kidney exchange

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A 2009 report of the United States Renal Data System includes this on the early growth of kidney exchange , through 2007. "Living Dono...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Transactions that are repugnant in Dubai

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Britons sentenced to a month in prison for kissing in Dubai restaurant "At the appeal hearing on Sunday, their defence lawyer Khalaf al...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Blog on school choice by Atila Abdulkadiroglu

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Atila Abdulkadiroglu at Duke has a new blog called School Choice : News and developments from schools and economics that matter to parents a...

Harvard's mysterious Z-list

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One of the more unusual routes to admission at Harvard is the Z-list, which the Crimson writes about this week. Z-Listed Students Experience...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Kidney exchange at NEPKE

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The Sunday Globe has a good story about a recent three way kidney exchange at the New England Program for Kidney Exchange. One of the donors...
Monday, March 29, 2010

The market for matzot

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The Passover holiday is a time to think about matzah, whose plural is matzot. A little market history: Thoroughly Modern Matzah "In 188...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

School choice in North Carolina

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"A bitter fight over school choice in North Carolina grabbed national headlines in recent months," says a news release from Duke U...

Usury and anti-semitism

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From Ira Stoll's review of Capitalism and the Jews , by Jerry Z. Muller, Princeton University Press: "The book by Mr. Muller, a pro...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

China's theme park of dwarves

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A Miniature World Magnifies Dwarf Life Quotes reflecting opposing views of repugnance: “I think it is horrible,” said Gary Arnold, the spoke...
Friday, March 26, 2010

School choice is serious business: litigation and politics in NYC and Chicago

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In NYC, high school admissions have been delayed by a lawsuit motivated by the city's effort to close some schools: High school letters ...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Time to scramble, if still on the economics job market

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If you are still on the market for new economics Ph.D.s, now is the time to register for the 2010 Job Market Scramble Registration is open ...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Random matchings

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Random matchings are the subject of two new papers. The first (not in chronological order:) IMPLEMENTING RANDOM ASSIGNMENTS: A GENERALIZATIO...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Misc. kidney exchange links

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The growth of kidney exchange is reflected in the following miscellany of stories. Trading for the Perfect Match: MassGeneral Hospital for C...

Transplant ethics

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Two stories reflect different aspects of current debates about transplantation, and who are appropriate recipients, and donors. Transplant t...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Reserve prices in ad auctions: a field experiment by Ostrovsky and Schwarz

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Reserve Prices in Internet Advertising Auctions: A Field Experiment by Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz. Abstract "We present the...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Congressional briefing, postscript

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On March 15, 2010 I gave a 15 minute presentation as part of a Congressional Briefing on the usefulness of Economics (particularly economic...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Signaling and hiring: one law recruiter's opinion

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From the Faculty Lounge: Tim Zinnecker writes "Speaking solely for myself (and not fellow committee members or my law school institutio...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Market design posters

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I'm giving a public talk on market design in Toronto on March 22, and Martin Osborne writes: "Hi Al. We're making preparations ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Match Day!

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This year's schedule for announcing the results of the resident match ends today, when most graduating medical students will learn where...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Who would sell kidneys, if kidney sales were legal?

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Not just the poor, according to a new (and sure to be controversial) study conducted by interviewing people at regional rail and urban troll...

Wiseguy Tickets

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If I were planning to break the laws on ticket resales, I think I would refrain from calling my company Wiseguy Tickts: 4 Charged in Concert...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

B2B finance

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Page 14 of a recent report by Morgan Stanley focuses on The Receivables Exchange , about which I have posted previously. (The Morgan Stanley...

New clearinghouse for new doctors in Scotland

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There have been some changes in the SCOTTISH FOUNDATION ALLOCATION SCHEME , the program that matches new medical graduates to their first po...
Monday, March 15, 2010

New school choice system in San Francisco

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Board Approves New Student Assignment System for San Francisco Schools  (now here ) Most of the last minute discussion was about what pri...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Raffle for a human egg

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The Times of London reports: IVF doctors to raffle human egg "A FERTILITY clinic is raffling a human egg in London to promote its ne...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

School choice in Britain

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A story in the Telegraph appears to report the remarkable fact that some schools in Britain are more popular than others, and are over-deman...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Congressional briefing on market design

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CONSORTIUM OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS You are invited to a Congressional Briefing on “Better Living through Economics: How Fundamental E...

Elliott Spitzer on government’s role in the market

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Government’s proper role in the market , in the Boston Review. Spitzer writes from the point of view of a former Attorney General of New Yor...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Wikis

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My busy sometimes co-blogger Peter writes: "I was just reading about the company "Wikia," which is owned by Wikipedia founder...
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Law faculty recruitment

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The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) helps organize law faculty recruitment , with services including a database of candidates cal...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Baby Markets

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I've just ordered this new book (only in part to find out why the ratio of female to male authors is drawn from such a different distrib...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Kidney exchange news from Britain

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David Manlove writes: Dear Al, I just wanted to pass on some KE news: the first 3-way kidney exchange in the UK has just been announced: htt...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Reading, writing and apologizing about repugnant transactions: Repugnance at multiple levels

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A story in Al Jazeera concerns conflicting views of repugnant transactions --things that some people think other people shouldn't do--on...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

"Tissue rights"

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Who has the rights to a cell line created from cancerous tissue? The NY Times reviews the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (Crown...
Saturday, March 6, 2010

Price gouging and proposed legal remedies

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Some more interesting posts on price gouging from Michael Giberson at Knowledge Problem : A private right of action on price gouging and Pri...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Embryo exchange in Georgia

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It's not what it sounds like, and it doesn't have tax consequences: Embryo Exchanges and Adoption Tax Credits by Sarah B. Lawsky and...

Matching for adoption

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"In most cases, a successful domestic adoption is the result of a match between a birth mother (BMO hereafter) who seeks to relinquish ...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Same sex marriage in Mexico City: starting today

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Gay Marriage Puts Mexico City at Center of Debate : "A new Mexico City law goes into effect March 4 that will allow same-sex couples t...

Same sex marriage in Washington D.C., starting yesterday

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Gay Marriage Is Now Legal in Washington "Gay-rights advocates hailed the day as a milestone for equal rights and a symbolic victory as ...

Same sex unions in the Anglican church

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Across the pond: Anglican bishops back end to ban on gay civil partnerships in church "Gay couples could soon be allowed to “marry” in...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Academic job markets in the Humanities

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has issued a new report as a result of a set of surveys of Humanities departments. Here is the an...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Assisted suicide, the debate continues in England and Switzerland

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Assisted suicide , a widely repugnant transaction, continues to be the subject of public discussion in England. The Telegraph reports a new ...
Monday, March 1, 2010

Economics job market scramble

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If you are a new economics Ph.D. and the market is going slowly, hang in there. Similarly if you are a department or other employer who is s...
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