Thursday, August 4, 2022

UNOS hearing in the Senate

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 Yesterday in D.C. ... a tough hearing of the Senate Finance committee.  You can listen to the video now, but it looks like the committee wi...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

UNOS and organ transplant technology

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 Organ transplant  communications and logistics are difficult, and current procedures are clunky. But never attribute to malevolence what ca...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

American Finance Association guidelines to prevent unravelling of the job market

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 Zoom is changing interview practices, and there's concern that academic markets for new Ph.D grads could unravel. The AFA is on the cas...
Monday, August 1, 2022

The Allocation of Food to Food Banks by Canice Prendergast in the JPE

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  The Allocation of Food to Food Banks by Canice Prendergast ,  Journal of Political Economy  130, 8, 1993-2017. Abstract: "Feeding Am...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

No divorce in Missouri while pregnant

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The post-Roe change in the availability of abortions will have many consequences, not all of them obvious.  It may prevent some divorces in ...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Harm reductions (fentanyl test strips) remain illegal in Texas

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It's a long way from Texas to Vancouver . This recent story from the Texas Monthly caught my eye: Fentanyl Test Strips Could Save Lives—...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Fentanyl by prescription: a Vancouver experiment

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 Part of the problem of black markets, particularly for drugs (but not just for drugs) is that customers are dealing with criminals who are ...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

The market for alcoholic drinks in Bangladesh

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Doctors can prescribe alcohol in Bangladesh. The Economist has the story: Bangladesh loosens its booze laws "Consumption of alcohol has...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Drugs, drug regulation, and chemistry: the case of nicotine (following Rob Jackler)

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  My Stanford colleague Dr. Rob Jackler has a longstanding interest in nicotine as an addictive drug that continues to be  effectively marke...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

The (local) labor markets for terrorists and drug traffickers

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  It's so hard to hire good help nowadays, but two papers in the latest Econometrica give us some insight into how that problem is solv...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Efficient school choice when schools are not players: Phil Reny in the AER

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  In some school choice systems, such as in New York City, the schools (represented e.g. by the school principals) as well as the students a...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

School choice in Amsterdam: a counterfactual analysis

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  Forthcoming in the JPE ( It looks like the refereeing process worked its magic on this paper, whose first version was distributed in 2015....
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Ideas to Increase Transplant Organ Donation, in Regulation / SUMMER 2022

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 Frank McCormick points out this recent collection of short pieces in the summer issue of Regulation. Ideas to Increase Transplant Organ Don...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Why kidney exchange needs to be available globally

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  The situation of children with kidney failure in low and middle income countries is particularly dire.  Most transplants in LMICs are from...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Gender neutral words in gendered languages

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Novel pronouns haven't been widely adopted in English, but committees now have chairs or chairpersons, and there are some attempts not m...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Debate on international surrogacy in Norway

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 In Norway, where surrogacy is illegal, there is a debate about whether surrogacy conducted legally in other countries should also be crimin...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Reducing the costs of preparing for high stakes exams by reporting scores coarsely

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 In many countries, national exams serve as the gateway to college admissions and other prizes, and many applicants incur great costs in tim...