Saturday, December 16, 2023

Ben Edelman on Microsoft AI tools

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Ben Edelman, the Chief Economist for Web Experiences, Strategy, and Policy at Microsoft, has some new papers on his blog , about Microsoft A...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Who Shall Live? (3rd edition) by Victor R. Fuchs and Karen Eggleston

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Shortly before he passed away in September at the age of 99, Vic Fuchs finished the third edition of his book Who Shall Live? , now with a c...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Managing blood supplies by using blood more judiciously

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Medpage has the story: Doing More With Less Blood — Blood management programs can save money and resources  by Steven Frank, MD  "At J...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Black market monkeys for medical research

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 Monkeys used in medical research are supposed to come from carefully bred laboratory colonies, but the rising price has led to black market...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Waiting for HRSA's request for bids to reorganize deceased organ recovery and allocation

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Frank McCormick's invaluable email newsletter includes this Bloomberg article on potential bidders who may emerge when HRSA puts out bid...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Market Design and Maintenance (new NBER working paper, from a conference)

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This paper began as a presentation at the NBER conference on New Directions in Market Design , in the Spring of 2023   Market Design and Mai...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Signaling for residency programs in dermatology, general surgery, and internal medicine

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We're starting to see some data from signaling for residency applications.  This paper observes that programs are more likely to intervi...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

JOE Job Openings for Economists: 2023 versus the past 4 years

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  Here's t he latest note on the job market from the AEA's  Committee on the Job Market .  It reflects a tight job market (but may a...
Friday, December 8, 2023

Computers in Econ (and in market design)

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 The current issue of the journal Œconomia. is devoted to  The Computerization of Economics. Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Drug addiction: not just opioids

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 Consumption of addictive drugs seems to come in deadly cocktails these days, which is making interdiction of drugs, and treatment of addict...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Applying for medical residencies: a consensus statement from Internal Medicine

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 The Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine has released a "consensus statement" with many proposals about application and interv...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Organ & Body Donations: John Oliver

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Laugh through the tears with John Oliver:
Monday, December 4, 2023

Convalescent plasma: the picture is getting clearer

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  Slowly, there is evidence accumulating that convalescent plasma is helpful in treating patients with severe Covid, if it is administered e...
Sunday, December 3, 2023

Photos from the daily market design activity at Stanford

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Two photos remind me of the day to day market design activity at Stanford.  Tinglong Dai joined our Wednesday market design coffee and sent ...
Saturday, December 2, 2023

Design of (international) kidney exchange: ex-post rejection versus ex-ante withholding

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 Here's a paper by several Dutch computer scientists, which seems to be motivated by the problem of international kidney exchange within...
Friday, December 1, 2023

Fairness in algorithms: Hans Sigrist Prize to Aaron Roth

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  The University of Bern's Hans Sigrist Prize has been awarded to Penn computer scientist Aaron Roth , and will be celebrated today. He...