Monday, March 25, 2019

Followup on the latest Freakonomics kidney exchange chain

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Earlier this month I blogged about a kidney exchange chain at Virginia Mason Hospital, in Seattle, initiated by a non-directed donor who h...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Special issue of NRL in honor of Uri Rothblum, February 2019

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Occasionally an Operations journal can bring memories flooding back: here's a special issue in honor of my old friend Uri Rothblum, who...

Do cashless stores hamper access by the poor?

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Are cashless stores discriminatory?  There's concern about that in Philadelphia, Massachusetts and elswhere.  The WSJ has the story: ...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Adam Bingaman and kidney exchange are celebrated (once again) in San Antonio

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Kidney exchange is thriving in San Antonio: here are two stories celebrating Adam Binghaman's work at Methodist Specialty and Transplan...
Friday, March 22, 2019

School choice in Denver, 2019 report

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Here's the latest report from Denver's unified school choice: Record High Participation In District’s Round 1 of SchoolChoice Mar...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Dr. Oscar Salvatierra, Jr. (1935 - 2019)

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Here's the Stanford obituary of the pioneering kidney transplant surgeon: Pioneering pediatric kidney transplant surgeon Oscar Salvat...

School choice in Washington D.C., by Thomas Toch in the Washington Post magazine

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In the Washington Post magazine, Thomas Toch writes about the accomplishments and limitations of the school choice system in Washington D....
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Frequencies of medically assisted death, in jurisdictions where it is legal

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From the Lancet: Regulation of assisted suicide limits the number of assisted deaths Gian Domenico Borasio, Ralf J Jox, Claudia Gamondi ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Matching civil servants to positions (and career tracks) in India

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Stanford's Ashutosh Thakur writes about civil service matching in India: Rethinking cadre allocation procedures in civil services ...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Alan Krueger (1960-2019)

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I was shaken today by the news of Alan Krueger's death: Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clinton and Obama, Is Dead at 58 He was a...

Palgiarism detection, student data, and Ed Tech: the purchase of Turnitin

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Here's a story that caught my eye in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, about the purchase of Turnitin , known so far primarily for plagiarism...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Congratulations to Ed Glaeser, Scott Kominers, Mike Luca and Nikhil Naik (EI best paper award)

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Congratulations to the authors of this fine paper, published in Economic Inquiry . 2018 Best EI Article Award Announced! BIG DATA AND...
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Matching refugees to host country locations

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My political science colleagues at Stanford have been thinking fruitfully about how to match refugees to locations in the countries to whic...
Friday, March 15, 2019

NRMP Match Day, 2019

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Today is match day, when imminent medical grads find out where they'll be starting residencies in July. Here's the NRMP's pre...

Ongoing controversies about same sex marriage

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Relatively recent stories, about the Methodist world and the Arab world remind us that there remains considerable active repugnance to same...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Organ donor compensation in New Zealand

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Organ donation is being reorganized in New Zealand: First step toward more life-saving organ transplants Wednesday, 13 March 2019, Press ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Disrupting black markets

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If markets can be facilitated, they can also be obstructed. The NSF announces some grants aimed at this: NSF invests in research to help ...