Friday, April 12, 2024

Gambling on sports, by and on athletes

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  Now that sports betting is legal, and apps allow people to bet on particular events within a game as it unfolds, there is concern that pla...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Talks at Washington State University, today and tomorrow

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Below is the announcement for a public lecture I'll give today at Washington State University, in Pullman, WA.   Bertha C. and Roy E. Le...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Kidneys: compensation and altruism

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 Apropos of my debate with Debra Satz this afternoon , here are two articles about kidney donation, from pure altruism or with compensation,...
Monday, April 8, 2024

Kidney Markets with Alvin Roth and Debra Satz (tomorrow, at Stanford)

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  Tomorrow Debra Satz and I will respectfully disagree with each other about the prospects for and desirability of compensation for kidney d...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Call for kidney exchange in Jordan

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 Here's a paper by Jordanian transplant docs, pointing out that kidney exchange (and perhaps cross border kidney exchange) would be usef...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

Israel Institute for Advanced Studies summer school in economics (and cs)

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  Here's the announcement for this summer's summer school in Economics in Jerusalem (with the program and list of speakers updated o...
Friday, April 5, 2024

Still illegal in Idaho

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  Here's a map from The Hill of places where marijuana will be legal to various degrees by the end of this year. Grey states are where m...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Jon Levin to be new President of Stanford.

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  Stanford alum, business school dean Jonathan Levin named Stanford president

Interviews by lottery at Queens University School of Medicine

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 Overwhelmed by large numbers of applications, and concerned about fairness, Queens University will set admissions thresholds (on grades and...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

UNOS and HRSA agree on new short-term OPTN contract

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 In case you were wondering about the transition to a new deceased organ allocation model: UNOS and HRSA agree on new short-term OPTN contra...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Children in China

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 The NYT ran an interactive story on China's change in family policy, from one child (from 1979 to 2015), to two and now to three. At th...
Monday, April 1, 2024

Headlines that could have been April 1

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  Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are humans dressed in costumes Nose-Picking Health Workers Had Higher COVID Risk— "Deserves more con...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

MATCH-UP 2024 7th International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences, Oxford, 9 - 11 September, 2024

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  Here's the announcement and call for papers of the latest edition of the Match-Up series of conferences. MATCH-UP 2024   7th Internati...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Fraud in physics? Room temp superconductors, again

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  It should come as no surprise that it's not only social sciences that can be roiled by accusations of research misconduct . Here's...
Friday, March 29, 2024

Stanford Center for Computational Market Design: Inauguration on Monday

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  On Monday, there's a market design event: Stanford Center for Computational Market Design: Inauguration Please register to attend the ...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Cannabis in US airports

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  An anomaly of US Federal law is that marijuana is illegal on airplanes (interstate commerce) even when the airports involved are in states...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Danny Kahneman (1934-2024)

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  Danny Kahneman passed away today. Here's the Washington Post obituary: Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90. He found...

Mexico’s Law Suit Against US Gun Dealers

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U.S. gun dealers are protected against lawsuits stemming from crimes committed by their customers. by the  Protection of Lawful Commerce in ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

American guns fuel Haiti's gangs

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The U.S. is an importer of illegal drugs, and an exporter of illegal firearms (i.e. firearms whose sale is legal, even protected in the U.S....
Monday, March 25, 2024

Anger and Sadness in Tel Aviv

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Saturday, on the last night of my just-ended visit to Israel, I attended two adjacent mass public events.  One was a political demonstration...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Conference in Jerusalem, in solidarity with Israeli academics

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 I'm expecting to be back in California later today.  I gave three talks while in Israel, and met with many people, but the proximate ca...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Kidney biopsies can be predicted pretty well, which could speed organ allocation

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 Here's a big international collaboration suggesting that AI assisted predictions about kidney biopsies are effective, and could speed a...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Lysistrata in Kiryat Joel

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  Kiryas Joel is a Hasidic community in New York State, in which ancient religious traditions can come into conflict with modern customs.  ...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Revisiting the Israel-UAE kidney exchange

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 I spoke in Jerusalem yesterday about kidney exchange, and one of the things I talked about is the kidney exchange between Israel and the UA...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Bring Them Home

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  I'm in Israel this week, where there are constant reminders of the hostages at Ben Gurion airport at Symphony hall
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...