Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Kidney black market arrests at Apollo hospital in Delhi

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Each morning when I manage this blog I erase spam comments, and many of them relate to kidney sales. You can see typical ones on the Google...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Pollak on Marriage Markets

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Here's a new NBER paper on marriage by Bob Pollak: Marriage Market Equilibrium Robert A. Pollak NBER Working Paper No. 22309 I...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

The regulated market for the resale of grave sites (and the black market of unregulated sales)

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Benjamin Kay points me to a 2013 story in The Forward about the resale market for unused grave sites: Black Market for Jewish Grave Sites ...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Market design at the University of Chicago

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Chicago is making a home for market design. .. Mohammad Akbarpour and Eric Budish's market design class at University of Chicago
Friday, June 17, 2016

Podcast about Who Gets What and Why (now in paperback)

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Here's an interview about Who Gets What and Why, now in paperback .
Thursday, June 16, 2016

The marijuana business in the U.S.: legal in some states, but still illegal under Federal law.

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The Guardian suggests that Canada may soon find commercial opportunities in marijuana : Will Canada become America's cannabis capital?...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Second Workshop on “Marketplace Innovation” June 15, 2016 NYU Stern

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Marketplace Innovation Workshop Second Workshop on “Marketplace Innovation” June 15, 2016 NYU Stern In conjunction with the 2016 Infor...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

White House Organ Summit--video and links. Deceased donor chains planned at Walter Reed

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Here's a video of the plenary talks/announcements at the White House Organ Summit yesterday. I give the last brief talk, from minute 43...
Monday, June 13, 2016

White House organ summit today

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I'm catching an early flight from Boston to DC this morning. I expect there may be more to report later... White House summit on incr...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Head transplants--could they be feasible? Repugnant?

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The NY Times has the story:  Doctor’s Plan for Full-Body Transplants Raises Doubts Even in Daring China "The idea for a body transpl...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Finding donors for transplants

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In a second article in the NY Times, David Bornstein explored the search for organ donors: Finding Organ Donors Concealed in Plain Sight ...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

Death in California isn't the same anymore

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The NY Times has the story:  Who May Die? California Patients and Doctors Wrestle With Assisted Suicide " On Thursday, California be...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Wife swapping: it's hard to make binding contracts for repugnant transactions

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Yannai Gonczarowski writes: "A week ago, the following question was asked on a popular Israeli web forum that discusses legal ques...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

On Patients Who Purchase Organ Transplants Abroad--Many or few?

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An article in the American Journal of Transplantation: On Patients Who Purchase Organ Transplants Abroad by F. Ambagtsheer,*, J. de Jong...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

College admissions--and censorship--in China (during the approach to the Gaokao college entrance exam)

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David Yang writes: Just want to share a post I saw on China’s social media today.  This week is China’s college entrance exam (Gaok...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

Transplantation interviews Dr Lloyd Ratner

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It's gated, but here's a link. Lloyd E. Ratner, MD, MPH: Professor of Surgery and Director of Renal & Pancreatic Transplantati...
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Sunday, June 5, 2016

NBER Market Design meeting at Stanford, October 28-29 2016 (submission deadline August 1)

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Here's the memo From:  Michael Ostrovsky and Parag Pathak To:  NBER Market Design Working Group The National Bureau of Economi...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Desensitization prior to kidney transplantation

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From the American Journal of Transportation, some discussion of desensitizing patients to get around blood type barriers to kidney transpla...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Keith Murnighan (1948-2016)

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Max Bazerman just sent an email saying that Keith Murnighan passed away this morning. He was in hospice care, after a long brave fight, chr...
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Uber, surge pricing, and how much battery life is left in your phone (they know)

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The Telegraph has the (scary) story, after chatting with Keith Chen :  Uber knows customers with dying batteries are more likely to accept ...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Kidney exchange in Australia--update

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A report from The West Australian on a four-pair exchange includes some stats on kidney exchange in Australia:   Amazing kidney swap surger...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Matching in Practice (joint with Advances in Market Design) June 2 - June 3

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11th workshop Matching in Practice (joint with Advances in Market Design) June 2  -  June 3  Our next Matching in Practice worksho...