Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Organ donation and transplantation in Japan

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The Chicago Tribune has an article (reprinted/translated?) from Japan: Japan badly lags world in organ transplants Yukiko Takanashi and S...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Ontario's new surrogacy law (and other laws regarding who is the parent of a child)

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In Canada, Ontario has just (last month) amended some of its laws regarding the definitions of who are the parents of a child, with implica...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Crowdfunding For IVF

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NPR has a story which involves a combination of very modern transactions: Please, Baby, Please: Some Couples Turn To Crowdfunding For IVF ...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Removing financial disincentives to kidney donation in the U.S.

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A forthcoming article in the American Journal of Transplantation, by authors who are firmly opposed to creating incentives for donation, sh...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

The politics (and incentives) of liver transplants

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From the LA Times:  California has long wait lists for liver transplants, but not for the reasons you think "About 7,000 people get ...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Genos seeks to make a market for personal genetic (whole exome) information

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Genos is a new company that seeks to make a market for personal genetic information--it wants to both sell sequencing services to individu...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Marijuana becomes legal in Massachusetts today

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Here's a story that ran yesterday in the Boston Globe: It’s official: Marijuana legal at midnight in Massachusetts "Marijuana w...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Non-market surrogacy (the urge to have children is strong...)

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Here's a moving story from England (where  paid surrogacy is illegal ) about within-family surrogacy that also involves a number of oth...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Tom Schelling (1921-2016)

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Tom Schelling has passed away. Here's an obit in the Washington Post: Thomas Schelling has died. His ideas shaped the Cold War and the...

John Dickerson speaks on Kidney Exchange in DC

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If you're in DC today... Swapping Kidneys: Better Matching Market Design via Optimization   Tuesday, December 13, 2016 6:30...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Black market for babies in Malaysia

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Al Jazeera files this report:  BABIES FOR SALE:  Malaysia's underground baby trade "The babies offered for sale come from a vari...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Festival of Economics in Trento, June 1-4, on health inequality

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The initial announcements for the 12th Festival of Economics in Trento in June 2017 have appeared: the theme will be health inequality. I ...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Repugnant money in England

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I've written a lot about repugnance and money, but never quite like this. Here's the Telegraph story on some new banknotes: New £5...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Dutch hospital director becomes anonymous kidney donor

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Joris van de Klundert points me to the following story: Voorzitter AMC geeft het goede voorbeeld als anonieme donor-- Ziekenhuisbestuurde...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Opposition to kidney sales in Iran

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Afshin Nikzad points me to the following story in Farsi, and provides the translation below. He writes: http://donya-e-eqtesad.com/Site...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Family consent for deceased organ donation in Canada

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The National Post has the story: One in five willing organ donors in Ontario have their wishes vetoed by family — and doctors don’t argue ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Conference on Economic Design: York, United Kingdom, June 14-16, 2017

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2017 Conference on Economic Design: York, United Kingdom, June 14-16, 2017 The tenth bi-annual  Conference on Economic Design  will ...
Monday, December 5, 2016

The human side of kidney exchange: video from NAS (5 minutes)

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This short (5 min) video is the first in a series  From Research To Reward   by the National Academy of Sciences about the human side of th...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Matching in Budapest, Dec 14-15

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101 years of matching in Hungary will be the subject of two matching conferences are coming up in Budapest. On Dec 14,  100 years of match...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Program for the recent Montreal conference on matching

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Here's the program for the conference on matching held in Montreal earlier this month. Colloque CIREQ Montréal de théorie microécon...
Friday, December 2, 2016

New Zealand's new Compensation for Live Organ Donors Bill

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Here's the link to the new New Zealand legislation on removing disincentives from kidney donation, sent by  Frank McCormick. Compensa...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Public lecture at Rice University, Dec 2

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I'll be giving the RISE Lecture at Rice (RISE = The Rice Initiative for the Study of Economics). Here are some other links with logi...