Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Impact of prioritization on kidney and liver allocation in Israel

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      Israel's  Organ Transplantation Law grants some priority on waiting lists for transplants to candidates who are first-degree relat...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Eyal Winter's historical novel "Anna's Children"

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  Eyal Winter , the eminent Israeli economist (who was a postdoc of mine a lifetime ago, in Pittsburgh), has published a novel called Anna...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Privacy while driving

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 Internet connected cars collect lots of data on driving behavior, which can be sold to insurance companies and used to change drivers' ...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Match Day for new doctors

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 The 2024 Match for new American doctors was announced yesterday by the NRMP, the National Resident Matching Program. Congratulations to al...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Plasma in Canada: payments and protests

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 The local newspaper in Niagara on the Lake, a town in Ontario, Canada, covers the proposed opening next year of plasma collection centers t...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

New Zealand repeals anti-smoking law that would have prevented tobacco sales to anyone born after 2008

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 In an earlier blog post , I wrote about a New Zealand anti-smoking law, saying "And now there's a law that cuts nicotine content o...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

SITE 2024 Conference: Call For Papers for Summer 2024

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 Now is the time to be thinking of submitting papers for the summer sessions at Stanford. (Some deadlines are in April.) Here's the call...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Kidney exchange between Portugal and Spain, and prospects for global kidney exchange

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 Here's an article from a Portuguese hospital that has engaged in kidney exchanges with Spanish hospitals that have resulted in three tr...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Global disparities in kidney disease and care

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  Here's a report on the availability of treatment of kidney disease around the world.  If you are unlucky enough to have kidney failure...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Does high pay equal "undue inducement"? An experiment by Sandro Ambuehl

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  Here's an experiment about repugnant transactions, by Sandro Ambuehl . Ambuehl, Sandro, " An experimental test of whether financi...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Michael Kremer on market design by economists (and other essays on developments in economics)

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  The March issue of the IMF publication Finance and Development ( F&D ) contains this essay by Michael Kremer. ECONOMICS AND INNOVATION...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantation

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  The father of brain death has died. Here's the NYT obit. Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89 . His willi...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Increasing kidney transplants by reducing discards of risky kidneys

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  Kidneys from deceased donors are too often discarded. Dr. Joshua Mezrich , a transplant surgeon at U. Wisconsin, writes in Stat about how ...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

France amends its constitution to protect access to abortion

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  The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.Wade and end a constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. prompted France to am...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Oregon is re-criminalizing drugs

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 The war on drugs is unforgiving, and neither criminalization nor decriminalization seems to be a winning strategy.  The NYT has the latest ...
Monday, March 4, 2024

50th anniversary of Shapley and Scarf (1974), and of the Journal of Mathematical Economics

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Now available online is the first in what I understand will be a series of papers commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Mathe...
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Telephones and telephone operators, as telephone exchanges became automated

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  Earlier experiences in automation may be helpful in thinking about current technologies. Here's a paper about automation that replaced...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Planet money plus-- interview on repugnant transactions

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 Behind a paywall :(, but here's some more of the interview that I did with Planet Money last month: Extended Play: Al Roth on money and...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Medical aid in dying--the ongoing debate in Britain

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 The Guardian has this opinion piece, connected to the current debate in England about medically assisted dying, and the slippery slope: I’m...