Wednesday, May 16, 2018

"Economics that works" in Bloomberg, celebrates Parag Pathak as a reply to some critics of economics

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A Top Econ Prize for a Theory That Works This economist figured out a better way to assign students to public schools. By Noah Smith, Ma...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Dick Thaler reflects on nuts to nudges--The economist as story teller

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Some Thaler stories, from the horse's mouth Behavioral economics from nuts to ‘nudges’ A bowl of cashews led to a research breakthro...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Kidney Exchange in India: current conditions and recommendations for the future

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The Indian Society of Organ Transplantation has published guidelines for expanding kidney exchange in India: Kute VB, Agarwal SK, Sahay M...
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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Too many traffic jams: an interview with Stanford's Mike Ostrovsky (and a paper by Ostrovsky and Schwarz)

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Mike Ostrovsky at Stanford GSB is interviewed on technology and traffic: An End to Traffic Jams? It Might Not Be a Dream And here's...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

The Alliance for Paired Donation celebrates it's 10th anniversary

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Celebrating 10 Years of Paired Kidney Donations  in Toledo, Ohio. "The Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation is celebrating 10 year...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Technology, diversity and money in modern pornography

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The fashion section of the NY Times recently ran a story on how technology such as webcams has democratized the pornography industry, in pa...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Swaying minds about marketplaces, technology summit

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I'll be trying to sway minds in tech today at the Sway Minds Technology Summit 2018 .  I'll be giving a very brief talk on matchin...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

How many transplants could a transplant surgeon do if ...?

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The  Indy Star carried this story about Dr. William Goggins at Indiana University, on the occasion of his 2000th kidney transplant (which h...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Surgeons get up early: Grand Rounds at Stanford

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Today, shortly after dawn, I'll be speaking at the Department of Surgery, on matching.  Come if you're up...
Monday, May 7, 2018

I am slandered (or at least misunderstood) by The Economist for writing about repugnant transactions

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You would think that writers for a magazine/newspaper called The Economist would read some economics before writing about it. Yet here, ...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Laboratory grown meat: coming ...soon?

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For omnivores concerned about cruelty in the food supply, laboratory grown meat offers an attractive possibility.  It's being explored ...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

Illegal trade in wildlife--photographic art recording a black market

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The WSJ has a story about a photographer who has created still-life photos from animal remains confiscated  by Canadian customs agents. ‘...
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Friday, May 4, 2018

Death with dignity: David Goodall flies from Australia to Switzerland

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The Australian has the story: Professor David Goodall, 104, prepares to die in Switzerland "Australia’s oldest working scientist an...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Tariffs and trade wars still seem like a bad idea: open letter to the President

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The National Taxpayers Union has organized the following letter, signed by more than 1100 economists, of whom I am one. It is mainly a copy...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Abelard and Heloise and sexual harassment in the Academy...

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At the same time as some sexual repugnances are diminishing (e.g. same sex marriage), other kinds of sexual liaisons, such as those between...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

College admissions and (versus) antitrust law, in the Atlantic. Legal status of a medical style match?

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The Atlantic has an article on college admissions, saying it could be made to work better if only (and only if) colleges were exempted from...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Deferred rejection: longer college admission wait lists

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College waiting lists are a bit of a misnomer--they aren't ordered lists, they are more like waiting pools from which candidates can be...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Kidney exchange amendment proposed for Hong Kong organ donation law

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A bill introduced in Hong Kong clarifies that kidney exchange doesn't count as (forbidden) "inducement" to donate an organ un...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Ticket scalping in Hong Kong

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I don't know how big of an issue it is, but this story on ticket scalping was prominently displayed in the South China Morning Post the...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

Marijuana markets--States' rights?

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The Trump administration has an ever more complicated relationship with the growing legalization of marijuana by American states (see previ...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Religiosity of non-directed kidney donors

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Here's an online early view of a paper from the Journal of Clinical Nursing (and see some related blog posts at the end of this post): ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Merit versus financial need in college financial aid

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Colleges give discounts. Who knew?  The WSJ has the story: Prizes for Everyone: How Colleges Use Scholarships to Lure Students Merit awa...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

2018 BEIJING INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE EXHIBITION

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I am on my way to the auto show in Beijing as a guest of NIO, the Chinese electric car company. From Google translate: " **...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Stanford celebrates Paul Milgrom

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Paul Milgrom on challenging the status quo to solve real-world problems " The author of more than 100 seminal   research papers   an...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Deceased donor kidney exchange chain in Italy (and some Italian kidney politics)

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First, some excellent transplant news from Italy: A deceased donor kidney exchange transplant chain has been conducted there. Here's so...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

FCC receives Edelman award for incentive spectrum auction

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Advancing wireless communication: FCC awarded the 2018 INFORMS Edelman Award, the leading award in analytics and operations research ...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Parag Pathak wins the American Economic Association's Clark Medal

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Here's the announcement, which describes Parag's work well: Parag Pathak, Clark Medalist 2018 Parag Pathak See my earlier p...

Should (government) economists be licensed? (Replies from a panel of academic economists)

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The question below, on Occupational Licensing for Economists , is the latest question answered by the distinguished panel of (academic) eco...