Monday, March 1, 2021

Compensating challenge vaccine trial participants: further discussion in the American Journal of Bioethics

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  The AJB invites commentaries on its target articles, and the comments on our article on payments in human infection challenge trials have ...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

What Motivates Paternalism? By Ambuehl, ,Bernheim and Ockenfels in the AER

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  I have long been interested in repugnant transactions , which some people would like to engage in and others, not themselves involved in t...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

Vaccine supply, and delivery, a call to increace production capacity, in Science

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 The latest issue of Science has a call  by a very distinguished roster of economists, to invest in additional vaccine capacity, urgently, t...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Vaccine delivery improving, with congestion

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  A statewide vaccine appointment list is a good idea, but it can crash: Massachusetts Vaccination Website Crash: What Went Wrong?   The sta...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Art museums selling art: relaxing the repugnance against "deaccessioning"

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  Here's an interesting look at the ways professional organizations can influence the behavior of their members by endorsing changes in ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

A shortage of medical residency positions

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 Rising numbers of American medical graduates, combined with more constant numbers of medical residencies (which are required for medical li...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A non-simultaneous liver exchange chain at UCSF, and a brief history of liver exchange

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 Living donor liver transplants are relatively uncommon in North America compared to Asia.  Liver exchange might help change that. Here are ...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Ethical Payment in Human Infection Challenge Studies in the American Journal of Bioethics

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 There are likely more vaccine trials ahead of us, of new vaccines and modifications of old ones to defend against new variants of covid. He...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Human infection challenge trials for Covid vaccine to move forward in UK

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 The BBC has this story: Covid-19: World's first human trials given green light in UK "Healthy, young volunteers will be infected w...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Canadian organ donations down sharply during pandemic

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 During the pandemic, Canadian kidney exchange was suspended, and organ donation was sharply reduced. The ChronicleHerald has the story: Org...
Friday, February 19, 2021

The 1% Steps for Health Care Reform Project (including kidney exchange)

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  The goal of the 1% Steps for Health Care Reform Project is to shift the way we think about health care spending in the US and offer a road...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Economics envy: signalling proposals for the radiation oncology match (to reduce congestion and coordination failure)

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  Here's a call to introduce signaling into the resident match for radiation oncologists, explicitly modeled after the signaling used in...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

International adoptions temporarily halted in the Netherlands

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 The decision by the Netherlands to indefinitely ban international adoptions has generated some controversy.   The NY Times has the story: N...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

New York State's new surrogacy law takes effect

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NBC has the story: No Longer an Outlier: New York Ends Commercial Surrogacy Ban .  New York's longstanding ban on commercial surrogate p...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Multiple queues for Covid vaccines, as pharmacies join the supply chain

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  It is good news that pharmacies are now being included among the places that can dispense Covid vaccinations , because not everyone is con...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Margo St. James, (1937-2021) fought to make sex work safer, and legal

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  The NY Times has the story Margo St. James, Advocate for Sex Workers, Dies at 83.  She founded a group called COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Ti...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

Surrogacy still repugnant (and illegal) in Michigan

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Michigan is now one of only a handful of U.S. states that criminalize commercial surrogacy and/or don't recognize (or severely restrict)...
Friday, February 12, 2021

European Network for Collaboration on Kidney Exchange Conference next Friday

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  David Manlove writes to announce a conference on kidney exchange next Friday, via Zoom, on Central European Time: " Day of talks on k...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Economics at the extremes (of gender and salary): UC Berkeley report

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  This report includes two figures in which the discipline of Economics is near one of the extremes.  The regression models on gender and sa...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Equity v. efficiency in vaccination

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Here's a sad story from the NY Times, as we struggle with getting people vaccinated, while making sure that everything is fair and squar...