Tuesday, May 9, 2023

How much compensation for U.S. kidney donors would end the kidney transplant shortage?

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 Here's a paper with a forbidding title but an important message (and an eye-catching first paragraph...:) McCormick, Frank, Philip J. H...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Guns and gun control

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  In the U.S., gun sales are both a protected transaction and a repugnant one. The right to bear arms is protected by the 2nd Amendment to t...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Supervised drug use sites to be banned in Pennsylvania

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 Statnews has the story: Pennsylvania set to ban supervised drug use sites, in setback for harm reduction   By Lev Facher "Pennsylvania...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

Wild coffee and climate change

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 Climate change is threatening coffee crops. But there are some wild variants that show signs of robustness:) The NYT has the story: What Cl...
Friday, May 5, 2023

New York doesn't ban Menthol cigarettes, amid controversy

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 The NYT has the stories, first about the proposed ban, and then about the budget compromise that defeated it: Black Smokers at Center of Ne...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

It's hard to dis-intermediate insurance salespeople

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 The WSJ has the story: How Life Insurance Agents Beat Back a Tech Onslaught. Startups tried to bypass salespeople but now embrace them.  B...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Market Design at the Max Planck Institute: Axel Ockenfels will become a Director, of ‘Economic Design & Behavior’

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 Here's the announcement from the Max Planck Institutes: Axel Ockenfels Appointed New Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research ...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Payment to college athletes: Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) Deals

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 The recent changes in what college athletes can be paid for  (and in their ability to transfer freely between schools) has made it profitab...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Jerusalem summer school in Economic Theory: Imperfect Cognition and Economic Behaviour: June 26-July 5

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 Here's the announcement and call for applications: The 33rd Advanced School in Economic Theory: Imperfect Cognition and Economic Behavi...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Statement of Policy Principles and Solutions: Living Organ Donation, from the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), and the American Society of Transplantation (AST)

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  Here's a joint statement about living-donor kidney transplantation from the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the Americ...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Resident match video from the NRMP

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  Different labor markets are organized differently. One difference between the market for new doctors and the markets for new Ph.D.s is tha...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Interesting development in the transition from medical school to residency: connecting applications and interviews

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  The market for new doctors has been suffering from congestion in applications and interviews, in the runup to the resident Match (see rece...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

More anti-gay legislation in Uganda

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 The NY Times has the story about new anti-gay legislation awaiting signature by Uganda's president: We Will Hunt You’: Ugandans Flee Ah...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Banned books

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  The LA Times has the story: Book bans are soaring in U.S. schools, fueled largely by new laws in Republican-led states  by  ALEXANDRA E. P...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

It's against the law in North Korea to use South Korean words

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 From Radio Free Asia: North Korea sentences 20 young athletes for ‘speaking like South Koreans’. Skaters and skiers were caught on video us...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Michigan Senate seeks to repeal 1931 ban on unmarried cohabitation

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 Michigan now has a more liberal senate than in 1931.  The Guardian has the story, about how even fossil repugnance dies hard: Michigan Repu...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Medical aid in dying: access for children, and for mental illness

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Two recent articles discuss whether there should be categorical limits on medical aid in dying (MAID).  In the Netherlands, the law now perm...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Strategy-proofness in Berlin in July

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 "The WZB is planning an international conference on matching markets “Matching Market Design: Strategy-Proofness and Beyond” held as a...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Transition from medical school to residency: defending the parts that work well (namely the NRMP Resident Match)

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This post is about a recently published paper concerning the design of the market for new doctors in the U.S.  But it will require some back...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Workshop on Experimental Economics and Entrepreneurship: call for papers

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 Nico Lacetera writes: We are happy to announce the  Third Workshop on Experimental Economics and Entrepreneurship , sponsored by the Belk ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Transplantation: progress and continued shortcomings

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 Here's a guest essay from the NYT that focuses on a different set of shortcomings of organ transplantation than organ availability. The...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) at 75

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 An editorial in Nature considers the complicated history of  the World Health Organization.  The WHO at 75: what doesn’t kill you makes you...