Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Learning and competition in the lab, in France, and in India

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 Three NBER working papers this week particularly caught my eye: a lab experiment, a natural experiment, and a field experiment. The first i...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Living Kidney Donor Transplantation and Global Kidney Exchange by Marino, Roth and Rees

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  Here's a just-published article explaining global kidney exchange,  in Experimental and Clinical Transplantation (ECT), the journal o...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Gary Becker's last paper: appropriately, on a monetary market for kidneys (with Julio Elias and Karen Ye, JEBO, 2022)

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  Gary Becker , who passed away in 2014, has a new paper, finished by his coauthors Julio Elias and Karen Ye . It recounts how the shortag...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Matching versus menus

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When preferences are simple, marketplaces can match you quickly, e.g. Uber knows travelers want a nearby car that will come quickly, so it g...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Returning to your place in the queue following a failed kidney transplant

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 Here's a forthcoming paper that proposes that rejections of marginal kidneys could be reduced if recipients were guaranteed a shorter w...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Canadian Blood Services in talks around paid donations of plasma

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Canadian Blood Services in talks around paid donations of plasma as supply dwindles. by Christopher Reynolds "Canadian Blood Services ...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Facebook data, abortion prosecution, and search warrents

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 The Guardian has the story: Facebook gave police their private data. Now, this duo face abortion charges   Experts say it underscores the i...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

The importance of couples matching for medical residents (it's missed where it's missing)

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  One of the successes of the design of the NRMP Match for medical residents is that it accommodates couples, using the Roth-Peranson algori...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Kim Krawiec interviews Frank McCormick on the kidney shortage (and how to end it)

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Here is Kim Krawiec's latest podcast  (click on this link to listen, not the picture below...:):   Taboo Trades  AUGUST 06, 2022   KIM K...
Monday, August 15, 2022

U. Chicago celebrates Michael Kremer

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  Theory in practice--Nobel laureate Michael Kremer is building up development economics at UChicago .  By Lucas McGranahan, The University ...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

More on UNOS in the hot seat and calls for reform of the U.S. deceased donor transplant system

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 Here's another report about the recent Senate Finance Committee hearing about UNOS, which includes a redacted version of the U.S. Digit...