Thursday, November 23, 2017

Signaling in resident and fellowship matches to reduce interview congestion

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An article by Dr. Joseph Bernstein in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (December 2017, Volume 475, Issue 12, pp 2845–2849 ) argue...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Kidney exchange in Mexico

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Here's the story of one of the first kidney exchange transplants in Mexico, as part of a global kidney exchange chain in the U.S. Dona...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Surrogacy in Australia

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From the blog Above the Law: A Terrible Ruling Leaves Thousands Of Children Without Legal Parents Even the judge acknowledged that his ru...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Who Gets What and Why in Vietnamese: Sách Ai được gì và tại sao

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Who Gets What and Why has come out in Vietnamese: Nobel Kinh tế Giáo sư Alvin Roth – Sách Ai được gì và tại sao (Who gets what and why) ...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Big Dialysis (or, why we need to increase access to transplants)

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Here's a polemical story from the Washington Monthly: it gives a good picture of why it's pretty terrible to be on dialysis, but ca...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

The Trump administration considers, and reconsiders, another approach to saving elephants

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Here's a story about a policy the Trump administration announced and then paused on: The Washington Post has the first story here Tr...
Friday, November 17, 2017

"Open algorithms" law proposed in New York City

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Here is a bill that has been proposed (and sent to committee) by the New York City Council: Automated processing of data for the purposes ...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Nava Ashraf interviews me about market design (video, 11 minutes)

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Nava Ashraf and I talk about market design in this video recorded when I visited the LSE: x
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

OneMatch for Indianapolis schools opens today

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Here's an article that I think does an unusually good job of explaining both the benefits of a unified enrollment school choice system,...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Economics in the Age of Algorithms, Experiments, and A.I., in Seattle

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The NABE Tech Economics Conference , Career Fair and Expo will be on the theme   Economics in the Age of Algorithms, Experiments, and A.I. ...
Monday, November 13, 2017

How often should a kidney exchange network run matches? (Often, it turns out...)

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Forthcoming in the American Journal of Transplantation: The effect of match-run frequencies on the number of transplants and waiting ti...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Corruption as an equilibrium

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WHY I AM CORRUPT | In Defense of Nigerians by Ayo Sogunro "I am corrupt because the alternative is dangerous. In the final analysi...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Alabama adopts a paid leave program for organ donations

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Here's the story: Alabama adopts a paid leave program for organ donations "Under a new state provision, a permanent employee wi...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Buying body parts is easy, as long as you don't use them for transplants

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Cashing in on the donated dead: The Body Trade A REUTERS SERIES Part 1: When Americans leave their bodies to science, they are also dona...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Legal prostitution and crime in the Netherlands

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Here's a new paper on the relationship of legal prostitution and crime. Street Prostitution Zones and Crime  Paul Bisschop, Stephen ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Kidney exchange authorized in Argentina

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A judicially-authorized kidney exchange already took place in Argentina (involving a well known journalist, Jorge Lanata), but now, Julio E...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

School choice in Indianapolis, and elsewhere

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The Indy Star has the story on the imminent rollout of centralized school choice in Indianapolis: Major changes await those wanting to enr...