Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Economists support Andreu Mas-Colell

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  In El Pais (plus Google translate): 33 premios Nobel de Economía y otros 20 destacados economistas escriben en defensa de Andreu Mas-Colel...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Matching patients with effective therapists improves mental health coutcomes

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 A recent paper in JAMA Psychiatry reveals that matching patients to therapists who are effective at treating their particular issues improv...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

The Economics of Covid: The 31st Jerusalem Advanced School in Economic Theory (June 28-30)

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This year's event doesn't involve travel. (Next year in Jerusalem!) T he 31st Jerusalem Advanced School in Economic Theory: The Econ...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Fur for fashion banned in Israel

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  Here's the story from Ynet: Israel becomes first country to ban sale of fur in fashion trade .   " Israel announced a ban Wednesd...
Friday, June 18, 2021

An Organ Donation Clarification Act is introduced again

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 Here's a new bill introduced into Congress by Matt Cartwright: To amend the National Organ Transplant Act to clarify the definition of ...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Amartya Sen celebrated in the Harvard Gazette

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  Amartya Sen’s nine-decade journey from colonial India to Nobel Prize and beyond "Many economists focus on explaining and predicting w...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

New legislation expressing repugnance to gender transition

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  Trans people are facing new obstacles from state legislatures, concerning sports teams, healthcare, and toilets.  Here's a story from ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Redesigning the US Army's Branching Process, by Kyle Greenberg, Parag A. Pathak & Tayfun Sönmez,

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  Here's a new NBER working paper that marks a significant step forward in matching soldiers to positions. Mechanism Design meets Priori...

Crisis in Catalonia, and Andreu Mas-Colell

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  Catalonia's crisis has been in the news again, with different parts of the Spanish government taking different views about reconciliat...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Repugnance to high incentives, by Robert Stüber

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Here's a paper that seeks to understand why some transactions are permitted when only low incentives are offered, but banned when high i...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Blame shifting in methane emission and climate change

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  Luke Coffman  had a paper in 2011 reporting an experiment in which a participant had an opportunity to play a dictator game with a second ...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

It's time to explore compensation for kidney donors: Dr. Arthur Matas in JAMA Surgery

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  Dr Arthur Mata s, the distinguished surgeon who directs the renal transplant program at the University of Minnesota, is tired of seeing hi...
Friday, June 11, 2021

Governments should buy kidneys, in Journal of Applied Philosophy

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 Philosophers argue differently than economists do, but can sometimes reach similar conclusions.  And (like economists) philosophers can som...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Congestion in applications and interviews, by Arnosti, Johari and Kanoria

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  Here's a paper modeling the issue that some labor markets may face congestion related to large numbers of applications followed by cos...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Congestion in interviews for pediatric surgery fellowships

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  In recent years, pediatric surgery has been a very popular subspecialty among Stanford surgical residents (upon completion of their 5 year...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Matching Teach For America Teachers to Schools, by Jonathan Davis

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Some years ago Clayton Featherstone and I worked with Teach for America to design their process for matching new recruits to school distric...
Monday, June 7, 2021

Help for Danish kidney-exchange pairs, from a private foundation (while waiting for the health care system to cover international exchange)

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 Yesterday I blogged about a particular global kidney exchange in which a Danish pair joined an American kidney exchange chain . Among the o...
Sunday, June 6, 2021

Global kidney exchange with Denmark, in the U.S.

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A Danish citizen with a willing but incompatible living donor, received a kidney exchange transplant in the U.S., through the Alliance for ...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

It's time to allow kidney exchange in Germany: Axel Ockenfels in the Handelsblatt

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  As I noted last month, there's a conclave on kidney transplantation at the end of June in Germany. Axel Ockenfels keeps the focus on ...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Advice for setting up a kidney exchange program

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 Advice from Italian doctors, on living kidney donation including kidney exchange, in the one year old journal Transplantology : Living Kid...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Realtors still have a few tricks up their sleeves--"Whisper listings"

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 It once looked as if the growth of the internet, and increased access to home listing databases, would substantially weaken the grip of lic...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Strategic issues with (combined) early and late matching, by Mumcu and Saglam

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   Here's a paper on early decision in college admissions. I read it with particular interest because of related discussions going on ri...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Domestic and foreign medical residents in the U.S.

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 From the Health Affairs blog: Graduate Medical Education Positions And Physician Supply Continue To Increase: Implications Of The 2021 Resi...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Covid vaccine congestion in France looks familiar

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France is some weeks behind the U.S. in delivering vaccines, but the script will look familiar to Americans. The  Financial Times has the st...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Vaccinating the whole world quickly turns out to be hard

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  As Covid vaccines became available, rich countries that had made early, advanced purchases at high prices had contracts that delivered ava...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21), Oct. 5-9 2021

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  "The inaugural ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21) aims to highlight work whe...
Friday, May 28, 2021

Kidney to Share book launch, Zoom recording

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  Last week I had the pleasure of joining the discussion of the book Kidney to Share   by Martha Gurshun & John Lantos.  It was on Zoom,...