Thursday, May 30, 2019

Alumni medals at Columbia

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I am a proud grad of the Columbia University School of Engineering, which I attended as an undergraduate from 1968-1971.  I'll be back ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Black markets in college graduation tickets

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Here's a seasonal story, from the Guardian; Need a college graduation ticket? There's a black market for that Tickets for New Yo...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Surrogacy and citizenship: bringing the babies home isn't always so easy

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Even the U.S., which is a center of surrogacy, employs outdated rules to determine which surrogate children born overseas are automatically...
Monday, May 27, 2019

California surrogacy

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Surrogacy serves all sorts of people, mostly couples who don't have a working womb between them. But, as Jenny Kleeman  reports in the ...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Same sex marriage comes to Taiwan

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Here's the NY Times story on the new law allowing marriage, and on still to be debated issues including family formation (adoption, sur...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Matching comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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I rely on comics to let me know important subjects to study (doesn't everyone?). Here's one from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ...

Match-Up 2019 in Switzerland, May 26-29

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Here's the program . (It contains abstracts following the schedule...) Sunday, May 26th 14:00 - 14:15    Conference Opening (Bettina...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Matching early when information is costly, by Grenet, He, and Kübler

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Here's a new paper on school matching that takes preference formation seriously: Decentralizing Centralized Matching Markets: Implic...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Vic Fuchs on the problems of employment-based health insurance, in JAMA

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Vic Fuchs, the dean of American health economists, argues that employment-based insurance has an assortment problem focused on high income ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Kidney exchange in India: the legal framework

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Last week in Ahmedabad I had a chance to interact with Dr. Vivek Kute and his colleagues at the Trivedi Institute, to better understand the...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Robot-assisted kidney transplantation in Ahmedabad, India.

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I just returned from a very interesting visit to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, part of which was at the Trivedi Institute of Transplantation S...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Management Science’s 65th Anniversary Conference, May 20-21, Boston University

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Management Science’s 65th Anniversary Conference May 20 – 21, 2019 Boston University Questrom School of Business "2019 marks the ...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Gail Cornwall responds to the recent NY Times story on SF schools

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Gail Cornwall, who follows San Francisco schools, replies to a recent article in the NY Times: A cautionary tale about linking school cho...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Yale SOM celebrates Vahideh Manshadi on the benefits of scale in kidney exchange

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In Yale Insights (from Yale SOM): Kidney Exchange Registries Should Collaborate to Save More Lives VAHIDEH MANSHADI "The results ...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Repugnant phrasing

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Japan's labor and immigration policies have been more restrictive than welcoming to an immigrant/migrant labor force.  So one can imagi...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Market design workshop, NBER October 18-19, 2019 in Cambridge.

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Here's the call for papers To:     NBER Market Design Working Group From:   Michael Ostrovsky and Parag Pathak The National Bureau...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Finding out what employers value in a candidate, without deception, by Kessler, Low and Sullivan

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Many experiments designed to detect how employers evaluate applications employ deception: artificial applications are sent to employers in ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Randomization in Economics: a history, by Julian Jamison

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Randomized experiments have a long history: The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences By:Julian C. Jamison JOUR...
Monday, May 13, 2019

PBS on Uber's economists

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Paul Solman interviews Uber economists (John Hall and others) and other economists (Susan Athey and Paul Oyer) on what economists do at Ube...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

UNOS proposal for public comment: Eliminate the use of DSAs and regions from kidney and pancreas distribution

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Public comment solicitation is a lengthy process--and this proposal has solicited many lengthy comments (for which you'll have to scrol...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

How are American transplant centers regulated? How does this influence treatment decisions?

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Here's a NYT oped about the fact that transplant centers are regulated based on their one-year graft survival statistics--i.e. on how o...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Indian Society of Organ Transplantation meeting in Ahmedabad May 11-12

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I'll be in Ahmedabad this weekend, starting with a conference of the Indian Society of Transplantation: http://isot.co.in/file/ISOT_M...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Shrouded prices for blood tests in the U.S.

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One of the features of the American health care system is that prices are heavily shrouded--insurance companies reach negotiated prices wit...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

David Kreps on Behavioral Economics (Nemmers Prize Lecture)

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David Kreps won the 2018 NEMMERS PRIZE IN ECONOMICS , and today, at Northwestern, he is giving his NEMMERS PRIZE LECTURE EVENT DET...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

School choice in San Francisco--update in the NYT

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Here's the NY Times story:  San Francisco Had an Ambitious Plan to Tackle School Segregation. It Made It Worse. “Our current system i...
Monday, May 6, 2019

A (first) liver-kidney exchange

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Here's a forthcoming paper in the American Journal of Transplantation: Bi‐organ Paired Exchange – Sentinel Case of a Liver‐Kidney Swa...
Sunday, May 5, 2019

Do child labor laws apply to social media?

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The Guardian asks the question: 'It's not play if you're making money': how Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor la...
Saturday, May 4, 2019

Global kidney health atlas from the International Society of Nephrology

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Here's the 2019 Global Health Atlas Kidney transplantation is nowhere readily available to everyone who needs it,  but the wealthy ...
Friday, May 3, 2019

Donating eggs for fertility: an update

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Slate brings us up to date: INSIDE THE QUIETLY LUCRATIVE BUSINESS OF DONATING HUMAN EGGS "The first US child conceived from a dona...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Legal marijuana in California struggling to compete with the well established black market

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Yesterday I posted about the competition the legal market for marijuana in Canada is facing from the pre-existing illegal market. Today we...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Competition between legal and illegal cannabis in Canada

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Canadian cannabis competition: Canada's legal weed struggles to light up as smokers stick to black market Six months after legalisat...