Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Patricia Kravey on non-directed organ donation

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From my recent email, a nuanced yet inspiring story from non-directed donor Patricia Kravey. " I’ve been meaning to write you for ...
Monday, January 27, 2020

100 years since Prohibition

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An op-ed in the NY Times points out that Prohibition didn't start suddenly when the 18th Amendment went into effect in January 1920--it...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

The black market for haggis

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If you celebrated Burns night last night, in honor of the Scottish poet who was born on January 25 1759, you may have eaten haggis.  And i...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

National Kidney Donor Advocate Conference, in April, in NY: Update--Postponed!

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Here's a heads up on the 1st Annual National Kidney Donor Advocate Conference  on Friday, April 24 in New York City. Here's a l...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Sam Trejo on non-directed kidney donation (in the LA Times)

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It's always good to hear from former students. Sam Trejo writes: "Hi Dr. Roth, I'm PhD student in the GSE who took yo...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Conference on Mechanism design for vulnerable populations in April at Pitt--call for papers: Update--Postponed!

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Here's the call for papers: Call for papers: 2020 NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference Mechanism Design for Vulnerable Populations ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Alex Chan on deceased organ donation policy, in JAMA

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Alex Chan comments on an earlier article in JAMA: US Organ Donation Policy Alex Chan, January 21, 2020 " To the Editor Ms Glazier...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Sixth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) Columbia University, June 2-3, 2020: Update--Postponed!

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Sixth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) Columbia University, New York, NY June 2-3, 2020 Organizers Itai Ashlagi , Man...

Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, June 2020, at Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria.

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Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design 2020 (CMID20) Starts 11 Jun 2020, 08:00 Ends 13 Jun 2020, 20:00 Europe/Vienna AAU Klag...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Recommender systems behaving badly: YouTube and Instagram

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Why are readers drawn to sensationalist stories?  Why do content providers produce them?  It likely has something to do with the recommende...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Anat Admati on Economics and Politics

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The title of Anat Admati's essay makes an abstract unnecessary. She's thinking of financial economics, but much of what she says wi...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Egg trading by hermaphrodite fish--evolutionary game theory by Peña, Nöldeke, and Puebla

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Game theory is about how payoffs among multiple parties change the way they interact with each other. One of the most interesting areas of ...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Germany sticks with opt-in donation for deceased donor organs for transplants

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Axel Ockenfels points me to this story, in English, in Deutsche Welle: German parliament: Explicit consent still necessary from organ don...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Vacancy chains and hermit crab housing, revisited

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Here's the story from the NY Times (with a nice video): Even Hermit Crabs Have Wealth Inequality   by Elizabeth Preston, Dec. 13, 2019...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Kidney Exchange in Israel (supported by Itai Ashlagi)

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Dr. Tamar Ashkenazi, the head of the Israel National Transplant Center, writes in Maariv : בשורה חשובה לחולים בארץ: הקמת המאגר הארצי להשת...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Matching for platonic co-parenting: "like a divorce, without the wedding or the arguments."

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The WSJ has the story, about two web sites that are trying to pioneer matching for people who want to conceive a child who will have two in...
Monday, January 13, 2020

The organization of organ donation: Jennifer Erikson and Abe Sutton call for an Office of Organ Policy

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White House staffers from two very different administrations call for a reorganization of organ donation: It's time to provide needed...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

Regulation of transplant centers and OPO's

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I'll be speaking this morning on regulation of transplantation at the 2020 Winter meetings of the American Society of Transplant Surgeo...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

Kidney exchange, in French, in Forbes

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Here's a short interview in French about kidney exchange, in Forbes France: Alvin Roth, Lauréat Du Prix Nobel D’Economie Veut Revolut...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Risk attitudes in transplantation--then and now

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Organ transplantation has become much more organized since its early days, for both good and ill. Today there's a good deal of regula...