Wednesday, August 30, 2017

The accidental experiment with legal prostitution in Rhode Island

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A scholarly paper and an easy to read-or-listen-to NPR report recount the period in which indoor prostitution was legal in Rhode Island. ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Harry Potter and the Resident Match | ZDoggMD.com

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To some medical students, the resident match seems like sorcery. Here's a video for them (and for everyone else who feels that things a...
Monday, August 28, 2017

The match for larygology fellowships

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In The Laryngoscope" Perceptions of the laryngology Match: A survey of program directors and recent trainees Eric J. Formeister...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Was air-conditioning a repugnant transaction?

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The Atlantic has a story that says air conditioning initially received a chilly reception: The Moral History of Air-Conditioning Cooling ...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

A tree grows at the Technion

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When I was at the Technion this week I visited a tree that I planted in 2013. Someone has been watering it: In this picture taken by Ma...
Friday, August 25, 2017

13th workshop of Matching in Practice, Aug 28-9 in Brussels

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 Here's the preliminary program: 13th workshop of Matching in Practice August 28 @ 12:00 pm - August 29 @ 2:30 pm Université Libre ...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Kidney cooperatives as a way of recruiting donors?

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Here's an article in J. of Health Economics which proposes a novel way of giving monetary compensation to kidney donors, in a way that ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Markets for ivory

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National Geographic brings us up to date on American markets for ivory: Why D.C. Is the New Hub for U.S. Ivory Sales "As states imp...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Global Kidney Exchange: a reply to some skeptics, forthcoming in the AJT

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Our recent paper in the American Journal of Transplantation about the first Global Kidney Exchange chain was accompanied by a skeptical ed...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Organ donation in Israel

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The Israeli Ministry of Health has a number of interesting web pages concerning organ transplantation. Here is the one on the compensatio...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

2017 Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM 26) at the Technion

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I'm on my way to  SPUDM26 (The 26th Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making Conference) August 20th-24th 2017, hosted by ...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Interview in London's Jewish Chronicle

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Wait for this, they have a column called Jewniversity Corner: Al Roth: Matching the market from dates to organs In his latest Jewniversi...
Friday, August 18, 2017

The ASSA / AEA meetings, preliminary program

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This year's ASSA preliminary program is now online:    https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2018/preliminary   The AEA sessions were orga...