Friday, June 2, 2017

Who can be parents in Italy? (Adoption by same sex couples...)

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In Italy, Confusion and Division Over Same-Sex Parenting Court ruling highlights conflicting views over the rights of homosexual couples a...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Remembering when deceased donor transplantation was regarded as repugnant

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From New Zealand, a story with several notable features: the patient received a heart-lung transplant, and her heart was successfully dona...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Kidney donation today on behalf of a future recipient

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Here's a forthcoming article in Transplantation , interesting for both what it says and who says it. The authors include prominent tr...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Health inequality at the Trento festival of economics, June 1-4

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The city of Trento hosts a festival of economics each year. I'll be participating. Here's an English announcement of this year'...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Matchmaking and market design: Italian interview

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Here's an interview in Italian, largely on kidney exchange, published in advance of the Trento festival  (which I plan to blog about to...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Obstacles to Organ Donations: The Dire State of Kidney Transplantation--Cato Institute

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Here's a panel discussion at the Cato Institute (pointed out to me in a comment on a previous post by Haksing Zimik): Obstacles to Org...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Should historians of science adjudicate scientific awards?

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Historian of Economics Beatrice Cherrier blogs about the two Golden Goose Awards that have been made for various parts of market design (i...
Friday, May 26, 2017

The big dialysis business

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Here's an interesting report that goes well with the J ohn Oliver video a little while ago: Why DaVita is being regulated, investigat...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Supporting science during the budget process--an op-ed in Alabama

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Government funding of science is important, and at risk.  Here's an opinion piece that ran yesterday in Alabama, which seeks to bring s...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

School choice in Chile

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La Tercera reviews the adoption of a deferred acceptance school choice system in parts of Chile: Resultados y desafíos del nuevo sistema d...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Informed consent laws, memorialized in an obituary

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The NY Times has the obituary, which recalls a long ago medical tragedy (he was left paralyzed by a surgery he had when he was 19) that gav...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Broken Chains and Reneging: A Review of 1,748 Kidney Paired Donation Transplants

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Broken chains in non-simultaneous kidney exchange chains begun by non-directed donors are not a big problem at all. Here's the article...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

New York City school choice in the NY Times: Not all NYC high schools are good yet

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The NY Times recently ran this story, largely critical of school choice in NYC: The Broken Promises of Choice in New York City Schools Th...
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Saturday, May 20, 2017

Discovering Prices, by Paul Milgrom

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Just published and well worth reading (here's a link at which you can discover its price:) Discovering Prices   --  Auction Design in ...
Friday, May 19, 2017

School choice in San Francisco faces ongoing problems (and not just school choice)

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The SF Chronicle has the story: Why San Francisco needs a full-time school board By Gail Cornwall, May 17, 2017    " Ever wonder ...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

School Choice in the District of Columbia: apparently not all according to algorithm

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The Washington Post has the story: it seems that some politically connected families were able to get the schools they wanted without going...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Dialysis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Laughing through the tears... The video briefly mentions a new living donor information source and database, Give and Live .
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Replication in Economics

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Professor Bob Reed at U of Canterbury points me to The Replication Network , a website he co-founded with Dr Maren Duvendack of  U of E. ...