Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Incest is still a repugnant transaction

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Professor charged with incest with his daughter "Political science professor xxx, 46, was charged Thursday with having a sexual relati...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Surrogate births, payments, and legal rights in Britain, continued

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The Telegraph reports Childless couples win the right to pay surrogate mothers: Childless couples will be able to pay surrogate mothers larg...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Mathematics and medicine: a cautionary tale

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Mathematics is valuable in many areas of application, including medicine, but there are hazards to having doctors diagnose their own mathema...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Prizes for solutions to problems

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An Australian firm, Kaggle , hosts problem solving and prediction competitions, and describes itself this way: "Kaggle is an innovativ...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

The end of 'don't ask don't tell...'

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Senate Repeals ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Another formerly repugnant transaction bites the dust...

The World Bank goes all in on carbon markets

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The NY Times reports: World Bank Will Help Finance Carbon Markets "As the United Nations climate change talks in Cancún lurch slowly ...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Bone marrow donor scam

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I've blogged before about bone marrow donation , but recent news stories report what appears to be a financial scam by a bone marrow reg...
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The job market for assistant professors in marketing

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That's the title of a new paper by César Zamudio, Yu Wang, and Ernan Haruvy, which looks at the market for marketers as a two sided matc...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Transplantable organs: the worst and best systems

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A grim story is playing out as European investigators finish an investigation: The NY Times reports " A two-year international inquiry...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Outsourcing reproduction

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The WSJ has an article on Assembling the Global Baby "With an international network of surrogate mothers and egg and sperm donors, a ...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Misc. organ transplant links: poetry and priority

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Steve Leider points me to this video about all of the people who received transplant organs from Chris Henry, the wide receiver who died i...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Admissions blogs

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At this time of year, lots of people are thinking about admissions to colleges and universities, both as undergraduates and graduate student...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

College football is big business (who knew?)

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The Chronicle reports on just how big a business college football has become   With an Assist From Alabama, Southeastern Conference Breaks t...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

First transplants from national kidney exchange in the U.S.

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UNOS announces First Kidney Paired Donor Transplants Performed as Part of National Pilot Program "Ken Crowder of St. Louis and Kathy ...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Time share markets for vacation housing

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Ernan Haruvy and Yu Wang explore some market design issues that arise in vacation house exchange, theoretically and experimentally, in their...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

The former science of anthropology

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Economics is a social science, dedicated to studying human beings as they interact with each other. It isn't the only social science, we...

Civil Unions for same sex couples in Illinois

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Civil Unions Advance in Illinois "Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday approved legislation allowing civil unions in this state, and the go...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

National kidney exchange in Canada

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Here's a recent announcement from Canadian Blood Services: Kidney Exchange Registry Goes National, Living Donor Paired Exchange becomes ...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

School districts face a multitude of problems

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My colleagues and I mostly interact with municipal school districts regarding questions of school choice . But of course school boards and ...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Kidney sales and incentives for donors: current controversy

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The American Journal of Transplantation has over the past year been full of surveys about the attitudes of various groups towards compensat...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

"Una persona altruista puede salvar muchas vidas"

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"A selfless person can save many lives". That's Mike Rees, the founder and guiding light of the Alliance for Paired Donation...

Cory Doctorow on copyright

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Cory Doctorow in The Guardian: What do we want copyright to do? " when we talk about copyright, we're not just talking about who...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

College football teams are hard to rank

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At least that's the conclusion of a recent NY Times article, Who’s No. 1? , written before the Thanksgiving weekend games were played.  ...
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Friday, December 3, 2010

School choice in NY and Chicago

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In NYC, the high school choice process seems to be working smoothly: High School Applications are due back to counselors Friday, December 3,...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Transplant budget cuts in Arizona

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Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients "Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are near...

Pentagon report calls for repeal of "don't ask, don't tell"

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Pentagon calls for repeal of ‘don’t ask’ "Ending a ban on gays serving openly in the armed services would not harm long-term military ...