Sunday, February 24, 2019

Used parts: a different kind of deceased donation

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How crematoriums are recovering precious metals from inside the dead Worth thousands of dollars a year, money from recycling metal joints...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

The unbundling of hotel services--marketplaces for luggage storage

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Airbnb is remarkable for the way it has become a major competitor to hotels, by deploying properties that were designed (and may be zoned) ...
Friday, February 22, 2019

De-biasing academic hiring?

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This is the season when new Ph.D.'s in Economics are hired as assistant professors. More senior professors are hired throughout the yea...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Marijuana debate in New Hampshire

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The NY Times has the story: Legalize Pot? Amid Opioid Crisis, Some New Hampshire Leaders Say No Way "MANCHESTER, N.H. — The push t...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Market design in Management Science (the journal)

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The journal Management Science is open to market design papers in at least two of its departments. Gabriel Weintraub alerts me to the follo...

Official and unoffical Iranian kidney marketplaces--online prices

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The Journal of Urology has published an in-press short paper about an informal website that seems to operate alongside the official Iranian...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Congratulations to the 2019 Sloan Fellows

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The full list, across all disciplines is here: 2019 Sloan Research Fellows  Here are the 2019 economists: Economics Nikhil Agarwa...

Payments for kidney disease in the U.S.

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Medpage Today has the story: Kidney Disease Payment System Draws Medicare Scrutiny 'We do not think the state of kidney disease care...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Carbon tax and dividend--now supported by 3300 economists from Aaron to Zykaj

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The Financial Times reports on the growing number of U.S. economists who support a carbon tax, with the money to be returned to citizens as...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Refugees and asylum seekers, in three charts

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From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Where Do Most Refugees Come From, and Where Do They Go?  By Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Asha ...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

More on the immigration "emergency": U.S. undocumented population continues to fall

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The latest   Journal on Migration and Human Security  has an article whose title conveys a lot of information.  For example, most undocumen...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Commercial surrogacy to be legalized in New York?

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Some stories on the current proposals and the controversy involved. From the NY Post: Cuomo proposes law to end ban on surrogate moms ...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Matching story for Valentine's day--BBC

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Valentine's Day sparks a demand not just for love, but also for stories about marriage as a matching market.  This year I was among tho...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Market design through machine learning: David Parkes

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If I were in Boston I'd go to hear David Parkes speak today about Optimal Economic Design through Deep Learning Abstract: Designing...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

The new market for (and marketing of) nicotine--Robert Jackler (followed by the CDC)

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My colleague Rob Jackler has been investigating the marketing of nicotine delivered through (non-burning) e-cigarettes, which deliver nicot...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Computational and Experimental Economics Conference in Barcelona

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Here's the call for papers, by Feb 28: Computational and Experimental Economics The workshop will run for 2 days and will take pla...

Digital Economy and Inclusive Growth--report from the Luohan Academy

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Here's an initial report from the Luohan Academy :   Digital Technology and Inclusive Growth --Executive Summary From the mission ...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

Stanford GSB celebrates Mohammad Akbarpour

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Mohammad Akbarpour: Humanizing Math for the Greater Good "The Stanford GSB economist discusses his groundbreaking research into kidn...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Kidney matching podcast: Jeremiah Johnson interviews me and Josh Morrison

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On the Neoliberal Podcast (49 minutes): Kidney Matching featuring Dr Alvin Roth & Josh Morrison Josh Morrison , who donated one of h...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Kidney exchange chains and altruistic kidney donation on PBS newshour

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PBS economics correspondent Paul Solman interviews non-directed kidney donors, and kidney exchange patients, and me, in yesterday's PBS...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Michel Balinski (1933-2019)

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Michel Balinski , perhaps best known for his work on the design of voting systems*, has passed away. Here's the announcement : ...

Philly and Feds at odds over reducing opioid overdoses

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Here's the story from NPR: U.S. Prosecutors Sue To Stop Nation's First Supervised Injection Site For Opioids "After months...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Transplant statistics (through 2016) from the 2018 USRDS annual data report

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The United States Renal Data System. 2018 USRDS annual data report  has come out. It seems to cover data through 2016.  Here are the bulle...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Repugnance in Spain: surrogacy and prostitution

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I've relatively recently started to pay attention to repugnance in Spain, here are some useful older links. From El Pais: Spain stru...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Kidney exchange in Israel using Itai Ashlagi's software

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My colleague Itai Ashlagi has been inventing, building, distributing and updating state of the art kidney exchange software ever since he ...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

Kim Krawiec on repugnance, and global kidney exchange

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Kim Krawiec talks about podcasts, and then about repugnance with some of her old podcast pals at Oral Argument .  They talk about global ki...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Medically assisted death

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The Guardian and the BBC bring us up to date on death with dignity in the Netherlands. Here are some excerpts from the Guardian's lon...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Colleges harvest signals of interest in more ways

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Congested markets--those in which there are more potential transactions than can be easily processed--promote signaling, and the search for...