Thursday, May 31, 2012

First circuit rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional

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Late breaking news from Boston on the judicial/legislative/elective battles going on over same sex marriage 's shaky status as a repugna...

Search firms in university hiring could become illegal in Illinois

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Search firms for hiring university administrators could become illegal for public universities in Illinois:  Illinois Bill Would Ban Use of ...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The market for medical referrals

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The medical profession finds (explicit) advertising repugnant, but specialists depend upon referrals, so there's a marketing industry at...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange

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That's the title of a new paper that explores (using random graph theory) the dramatic success of long non-simultaneous chains in kidne...

Michael Sandel on markets and economists

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The Boston Review hosts a Forum on Michael Sandel's arguments against markets: Forum: How Markets Crowd Out Morals Shout ...
Monday, May 28, 2012

NY Times debate on school choice and (residential) segregation

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Is Segregation Back in U.S. Public Schools? DEBATERS Integrating Rich and Poor Matters Most RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG, CENTURY...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Kidney exchange in San Antonio

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Adam Bingaman and his colleagues at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital,  in San Antonio, Texas, report on their stellar experie...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Adults for adultery?

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The Telegraph reports: British women drive demand for extramarital dating websites: More than a million British adults have subscribed to ex...
Friday, May 25, 2012

NEAD chains in kidney exchange: more on long chains

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GE healthymagination’s online health blog, Healthy Outlook, has an article  by Jane Langille on the unusually long Nonsimultaneous Extended ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Harvard after the return of early admissions

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Harvard Yield for Class of 2016 Soars to 81% " In the first year of Harvard’s renewed early admissions program, the yield for the cla...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Practical Exchange Design by McAfee and Vassilvitskii

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Google's Preston McAfee and Sergei Vassilvitskii offer a breezy  Overview of Practical Exchange Design Its conclusions: " A ric...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Public attitudes on compensation for donors

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Poll: Americans Show Support For Compensation Of Organ Donors "Federal law bans payments for organs. But given the need, we wondered...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Is market life sucking the meaning out of real life?

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Are too many things available to buy? That seems to be a theme of much recent literature that, at its worst, regrets how the economy has suc...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

NY Times debate: Is Prostitution Safer when It's Legal?

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The debate Is Prostitution Safer When It’s Legal?  mirrors in many ways the debate over whether legalizing compensation for kidney donors  (...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Maryland courts: same sex divorce isn't repugnant, even if marriage is

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Two weeks ago I reported on the Maryland court case about whether a same sex couple who got married in California could divorce in Maryland...
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Friday, May 18, 2012

Comparing countries through their universities

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Comparing universities is hard enough, and it's harder if they are in different countries, so imagine the caveats that must accompany th...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Why are there (still) fewer women professors than men?

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A study of chemistry Ph.D. students in Britain reveals that academic careers start looking disproportionately unattractive to women compared...
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