Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Mike Rees launches "Reverse transplant tourism" at the Alliance for Paired Donation

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Philippine couple receives first operation in Reverse Transplant Tourism NBC videos:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ZA3uQslFc  ...

Joel Klein and New York Schools, at the World Bank

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Joel Klein, the former Chancellor of the New York City School system, recently spoke at the World Bank about his new book " Lessons of...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Organ donation in Turkey

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The religious debate about organ donation in Turkey may have reached a turning point. Here's a story from the Daily Sabah: Imams to l...
Monday, February 2, 2015

World Congress of the Econometric Society : 17th to 21st August 2015 in Montreal

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11th World Congress of the Econometric Society : 17th to 21st August 2015 Montréal, Canada There's lots of market design among the f...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

Penn State honors Bob Marshall

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Dr. Robert C. Marshall Named Distinguished Professor "Robert C. Marshall, Department of Economics recently was named Distingu...

Continued troubles in German organ donation and transplantation

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From Spiegel online:  Vor Organspende: Schwerer Fehler bei Hirntod-Diagnose   (Before Organ Donation: A fatal error occurred brain death di...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Financial compensation for living kidney donation: survey at departments of motor vehicles

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Here's another contribution to the ongoing discussion... Am J Transplant.  2015 Jan;15(1):265-73. doi: 10.1111/ajt.13004. Epub 2014 ...

Sandholm on kidney exchange

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Tuomas Sandholm writes: "I just today updated my web page with my new papers.  Here are the main kidney exchange papers that I have...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Barcelona in June: experimental macro-economics and matching and market design (different events:)

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Rosemarie Nagel writes to announce the 6th LeeX International Workshop co-organized with Barcelona GSE Summer Forum  on  Theoretical an...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

The App Economy: at SIEPR

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I'm looking forward to spending the day tomorrow at SIEPR, learning about how apps are changing the internet and the world. (That's...

New reports that China to stop harvesting executed prisoners' organs

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But no word on how they propose to manage the transition from executed prisoners to developing a voluntary source of donated organs for tra...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Is the medical match fair?

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MIT News reports on a forthcoming paper by Nikhil Agarwal : An Empirical Model of the Medical Match  |  Online Appendix American Economi...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Choice prediction competition:

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From Anomalies to Forecasts: Choice Prediction Competition for Decisions under Risk and Ambiguity  (CPC2015) Supported by the Max Wer...

Benefits--and risks--of nondirected living kidney donation

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Here's a news article focusing on nondirected donation in Canada: Desperately needed organs from anonymous living donors are saving l...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Boxing becoming legal in Norway again (but still not in Iceland)

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The Economist has the story: Laws on boxing--Bouncing back "More countries are allowing professional boxing, despite the risks FIR...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Domino liver transplants

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At the University of Maryland, a woman who received a liver transplant from a deceased donor was nevertheless able to donate her liver to a...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Compensation for donating eggs is (taxable) income

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Kim Krawiec at the Faculty Lounge finishes the story of the woman who claimed in tax court that her income from donating eggs for infertil...