Monday, January 9, 2017

AEA Annual Meeting Webcasts

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2017 AEA Annual Meeting Webcasts of Selected Sessions View Webcasts of selected sessions from the Annual Meeting in Chicago on Januar...
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Sunday, January 8, 2017

Pictures from ASSA 2017

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I saw, listened to and even introduced some famous economists at the ASSA meetings. Here are a few;  see who you recognize... ...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

AEA Poster session: The Ongoing Design of Kidney Exchange

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This year we've organized an expanded set of posters at the AEA meetings in Chicago, and mine is  on The Ongoing Design of Kidney Excha...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Some special sessions at the ASSA meetings

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It was my responsibility to organize the AEA portion of the ASSA meetings this year (which I did with the help of a distinguished and hard ...
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Thursday, January 5, 2017

Richard Ely and the founding of the American Economic Association

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Some history of the AEA, and Richard Ely. First, from the Democracy Journal, published before last year's AEA meetings in SF, but jus...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

France introduces opt-out policy on organ donation

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The Guardian has the story: France introduces opt-out policy on organ donation Change in law means consent for organs to be removed is pr...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Tony Atkinson (1944-2017)

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Tony Atkinson died on January 1, 2017. This surely means that some working group of the Nobel committee for Economics will have to start ov...

The Economist explores adultery

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Hyphens are important, and the subject of this Economist essay is extra-marital sex, as opposed to extra marital sex. WHAT’S WRONG WITH I...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Repugnance watch: Gender identity. 8-year-old transgender boy barred from Cub Scouts in NJ and NYC issues an "intersex" birth certificate,

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Two (otherwise unrelated) recent news stories suggest that social attitudes towards gender identity may be tested in the new year in ways t...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Matchmaker Exchange: Matching genes and symptoms for patients with very rare diseases ("lonesome exomes")

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There's a lot of genetic matchmaking going on in the world. In kidney transplantation we worry about HLA matching, which is even more ...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

The passing year, and the year to come

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The future is the hardest thing to predict, and the coming year is looking particularly unpredictable. But people are resilient, and we...

NSF grant on collaborative kidney exchange: final report

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I had a long-running NSF grant at the NBER in the years when I was at Harvard, called "Collaborative Research on Kidney Exchange....
Friday, December 30, 2016

Repugnance watch: China Bans Its Ivory Trade, Moving Against Elephant Poaching

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The NY Times has the story:  China Bans Its Ivory Trade, Moving Against Elephant Poaching "China announced on Friday that it was ban...