Thursday, January 28, 2021

National Academies committee on Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution

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The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine have formed a committee on A Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Tra...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Basketball is still adjusting to the three-point field goal

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Rules are an important part of the design of marketplaces, and also of games and competitive sports. And it can take time for participants t...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Removing disincentives from kidney donation: pro and con in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases

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 Two dueling papers in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases consider the effects of compensating kidney donors to remove disincentives fr...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Congestion in vaccine delivery, and shortage of overall supply: latest news, and a call for increased production

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Covid vaccines in many parts of the U.S. are being distributed only slowly, while other places are experiencing shortages.  The NY Times bri...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Mike Rees wins transplant surgeon excellence award for innovations in kidney exchange

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Mike Rees, who founded the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD), received The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP)   2021 M...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Forbes interviews Jennifer Erickson on organ donation

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 I met Jennifer Erickson when she was at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama administration, and helped...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Mike Luca on social media bans

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  Mike Luca writes, in Wired, about social media bans as part of their design. Social Media Bans Are Really, Actually, Shockingly Common--B...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

SAT eliminates subject tests

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 The portfolio of standardized tests available to college admissions offices is shrinking (or at least changing)... The WSJ has the story: C...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Vaccine congestion: short planning horizons

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  ProPublica has the story: How Operation Warp Speed Created Vaccination Chaos--States are struggling to plan their vaccination programs wit...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

School choice under discussion in Vienna (video, in English and German)

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  On Wednesday I spoke about school choice in Vienna.  (Here's the prospectus .)The video is below. (I start speaking around minute 9:30...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Congestion in decentralized vaccination

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 The news is full of stories of people obsessively refreshing web pages, hoping to get an appointment for a Covid vaccine. The Washington Po...
Sunday, January 17, 2021

A proposed match for English professors, in the Chronicle of Higher Ed

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 Here's a proposal for a centralized clearinghouse for new Ph.D.s in English.  It's a thought experiment, unconstrained by considera...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Covid vaccine causes outbreak of smoking in New Jersey

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  Strategy-proofness is an idea that shouldn't be appreciated only by game theorists. The NY Times has the story: Smokers in N.J. Are El...
Friday, January 15, 2021

More on convalescent plasma for treating Covid-19

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Early results concerning the effectiveness of convalescent plasma have been mixed.  Here's a new study, in the NEJM, and reported in the...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Another pandemic shortage: donor sperm

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  Sperm from conventional sperm banks is now in short supply. But there are "known donor" peer to peer websites and Facebook group...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Regulating the timing of job search: evidence from the labor market for new college graduates, by Hiroko Okudaira

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  Regulating the timing of job search: evidence from the labor market for new college graduates Hiroko Okudaira , Doshisha University, Labou...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

School choice in Vienna (public talk on January 13)

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  I'll give a (Zoom) talk tomorrow in Vienna (talk in English, discussion in German...)   13 JAN livestream 13.01.2021, 18:00 WU matters...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Remembering the 116th Congress (it fixed Medicare coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for transplant patients)

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  This won't be the most memorable thing about the Congress that adjourned in 2020, but it's something positive: up through the end ...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

Partial strategyproofness: Relaxing strategyproofness for the random assignment problem by Mennle and Seuken in JET

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  Most market mechanisms that we encounter in practice aren't strategy proof, and many markets don't admit any strategyproof mechani...
Saturday, January 9, 2021

Prices and Decentralization Without Convexity: Milgrom's Arrow Lecture at Columbia (video)

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  Columbia University Press posts a "video of Paul Milgrom's 2014 Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture that inspired Discovering Prices: Auctio...
Friday, January 8, 2021

History and pre-history of kidney transplantation

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 From the Hektoen International Journal (starting with an Egyptian papyrus from 1550 BCE): A brief history of kidney transplantation  by Lau...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Vouchers for organ donation, by Kim, Li, and Xu in JET

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There are now a number of ways in which an organ donation (or registration as an organ donor) can turn into a future priority for receiving ...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

von Neumann Award to Matt Gentzkow

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  Matt Gentzkow is the recipient of the 2021 John von Neumann Award . "We are excited to announce that the Assembly of the College ele...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

New Israeli anti-prostitution law: the johns are now criminals

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With the new year, the Israeli law that makes it a crime to hire prostitutes goes into effect.  Haaretz has the story:  Israel's Anti-pr...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Randomized control trials plus preferences: a market design for experiments by Yusuke Narita in PNAS

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 Random assignment of patients to experimental treatments is intended to allow statisticians to cleanly measure the effect of the treatments...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

The Short-Side Advantage in Random Matching Markets by Linda Cai and Clayton Thomas (guest post by Itai Ashlagi)

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 Itai Ashlagi writes:  Linda Cai and Clayton Thomas, both graduate students, have a very short, elegant and straightforward proof for why th...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Vaccine supply chain woes

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Supply chains are boring, until things are in short supply. And there are many steps in a supply chain that can cause supplies to be short. ...
Friday, January 1, 2021

A hopeful picture for 2021 (when vaccines will replace masks...)

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  Original at  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqayYuaXEAE7YCu.jpg HT: Mike Rees

Hypertension: the surgeon general calls for a New Year's resolution

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  The U.S. Public Health Service has issued the following call to action on high blood pressure, which affects many Americans, differentiall...