Friday, April 28, 2017

Israel transplant investigation

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The Israeli organization Matnat Chaim (Gift of Life), founded by Rabbi Yeshayahu Heber, is under investigation about whether it encouraged...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Talking to nephrologists about kidney exchange

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Most conversations about kidney exchange (aka kidney paired donation, kpd) are with transplant professionals. But kidney patients start out...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Bobby Pakzad-Hurson defends his dissertation

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Bobby Pakzad-Hurson defended his dissertation yesterday. (Successfully:) You can find his papers at the link. This celebratory photo was t...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Organ transplantation in Iran

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Robert Gutman draws my attention to this article from the English language Iranian Financial Tribune:  Sunday, April 23, 2017  Strides in O...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Medical marijuana is now legal in half the U.S.

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The Washington Post points out that this will be hard to reverse, even though that may be the position of the Trump administration:   If Je...
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Sunday, April 23, 2017

The FCC Spectrum Incentive Auction: conference at Duke

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Here's a chance to hear about one of the most exciting auctions of modern times... The FCC Spectrum Incentive Auction: Lessons for th...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

Market design at Harvard Business School

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Here's the announcement of a new HBS course on market design: Making Markets Course Number 1764 Professor Thomas R. Eisenmann Ass...
Friday, April 21, 2017

School choice in Indianapolis: podcast of my talk at the Economic Club of Indianapolis

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Here's a link to the broadcast of my talk on radio WYFI in Indianapolis, on markets, marketplaces, Who Gets What, and school choice wit...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Match Up 2017: April 20-21 at Microsoft Research New England

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MATCH-UP 2017 , the fourth workshop in the  series of interdisciplinary and international workshops   on matching under preferences, will t...