Monday, August 6, 2018

Experimental economics at Stanford SITE, Aug 6-7

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Here's the program : Session 4: Experimental Economics SITE Summer Workshops 2018 August 6 - 7, 2018 Organi...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Two bills aimed at increasing the number of transplants

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The Niskanen Center has a post on two proposed pieces of legislation (together with some thoughts on why incremental policy oriented work ...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Interview on market design and repugnance with Yale sophomore Eric Wallach

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Here's the transcript of a recent telephone interview I did with  ERIC WALLACH , a sophomore at Yale, for  The Politic , Yale’s undergr...
Friday, August 3, 2018

Nevanlinna Prize winner Constantinos Daskalakis, and the Fields medalists (and one of the Fields medals)

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Here's a video that touches on his work on computational complexity of Nash equilibria, and auctioning multiple items. Here's s...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Politico summarizes the Backpage story

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Here's an article for those who haven't been following this first amendment/prostitution/human trafficking story... The Sex-Traff...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

How to split the check using social skills or mechanism design

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The Washington Post ran a column yesterday that offers advice on How to split the check without the accusations and awkwardness . The ar...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

A look inside Harvard's admissions process

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College admissions is a matching process--you can't just study at an elite university, even if you can afford the tuition--you first ha...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Ant financial

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When I visited Hangzhou recently I learned a bit about Ant Financial, the offspring of Alibaba and the proprieter of AliPay.  Here's a ...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

Compensation for bone marrow/blood stem cells: where are we now?

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Here's a paper in the Johns Hopkins series of mostly student papers, Studies in Applied Economics, that brings us up to date on the sta...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

PBS asks: should the U.S. follow Iran in allowing a market for kidneys for transplant?

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PBS asks the question Iran pays kidney donors. Should the U.S. follow? You can read the transcript or watch the video at the link. HT:...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Surrogacy law in Israel

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Haaretz has the story of the recent expansion of access to surrogacy in Israel, which however excludes same sex couples. Why the Battle f...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Modern slavery, in supply chains and around the world

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The Global Slavery Index recently issued its report for 2018. They say : "In the context of this report, modern slavery covers a set...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Kidney Exchange at Methodist of San Antonio

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Good matching algorithms and software, innovative histocompatibility tests, recruiting lots of compatible pairs and good surgery and admini...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Design of fisheries--EURO Excellence in Practice Award to Bichler, Ferrell, Fux, and Goeree

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Congratulations to the winners, and to the fishermen and the fish for this recent award for market design. EURO Excellence in Practice A...
Monday, July 23, 2018

A cri de cœur against assortative matching for French college admissions

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A French op-ed discusses the new college admissions system, ' Parcoursup ': Derrière l’algorithme de Parcoursup, un choix idéolog...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Two recent trips to China, in pictures

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From Hangzhou, with Alibaba's Jack Ma, and overlooking West Lake, with the pagoda from the story of White Snake barely visible in the d...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Effects of removing some financial dis-incentives to kidney donation through the National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC)

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Here's a recent paper looking at NLDAC . (I'm on their advisory board .) It might help make the case for yesterday's proposed ...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Proposed new legislation: Organ Donor Clarification Act

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Here's an Act that would encourage evidence-based policy towards reducing the dis-incentives to donate a kidney or part of a liver for ...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Manipulation by doctors of the Organ Allocation System Waitlist Priority

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You will be shocked to learn that doctors and transplant centers respond to incentives in their effort to get scarce organ transplants for ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Matching endorsements to endorsers

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The NY Times reports on speed dating of Youtube influencers and brands (and on newly relevant "moral turpitude" clauses concernin...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Compensation for plasma donors--calls for a ban in Canada

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At the same time as there are calls for decriminalizing drug use in Canada (see yesterday's post ), there are calls for bans on compens...