Saturday, August 24, 2024

Tattoos

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 Tattoos used to signal something different than they do today. The NYT has the story. The Price of Getting Inked . Whether it’s the expense...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Blood donation by family members in India: LGBT donors still banned

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 In India, where the shortage of blood supplies is addressed by having family members donate, the ban on donation by LGBT people is a seriou...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Surrogacy under continued attack in Italy

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The language of repugnance is strong in these latest developments. The NYT has the story: Has Power Moderated Italy’s Leader? Not to Same-Se...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Kidney Exchange among Austria, Czech Republic, and Israel

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  Here's an article that includes description of the joint Austria, Czech Republic and Israel kidney exchanges. Böhmig, Georg A., Thomas...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Inter-hospital kidney exchange in Saudi

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 Transplant centers .already conduct kidney exchange in the Kingdom, but now an effort is being launched to make exchange between centers fe...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Uterus transplants--update

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Reproductive options continue to grow... Here's an update on transplantation of the uterus. Uterus Transplant in Women With Absolute Ute...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Incentives for blood donation in China

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 College students have serious (and competitive) incentives to donate blood in China.  This is from Ariana Tang's blog blood donation bo...
Saturday, August 17, 2024

Interview with Daron Acemoglu – on AI and crypto

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  Interview with Daron Acemoglu – Frank Pagano " What exponential technologies will change our world, in your opinion, by 2030 – betwee...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Preference signaling in the Political Science job market

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  There is now signaling in the Political Science job market:  They allow job candidates to send up to three signals: here's the APSA...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

SITE: Empirical Market Design, today and Friday

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  Session 10: Empirical Market Design   (schedule at the link) Thu, Aug 15 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 16 2024, 5:00pm PDT O rganized by Claudia...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Olympic scorekeeping (choose your comparison set)

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 There are many local angles to the coverage of the Olympics. Some of them have to do with scoring systems.  Here's a story from the WSJ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

End Kidney Deaths Act intoduced in Congress

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  Here's the press release from the Congressional sponsors: Malliotakis Introduces Bipartisan End Kidney Deaths Act , August 12, 2024 ...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil: prelude

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 Yesterday I flew home from a busy visit to Brazil, with Mike Rees and Dr. Gustavo Ferreira .   On Wednesday we all traveled to the capital...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

AI in college admissions

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  College admissions staff must expect to be seeing a lot of personal essays written and edited by chatbots. Here's a company, Kollegio....
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Leading Causes of Death in the US, 2019-2023.

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 Covid has dropped out of the top 10. Leading Causes of Death in the US, 2019-2023. by Farida B. Ahmad, MPH1; Jodi A. Cisewski, MPH1; Rober...
Friday, August 9, 2024

Designing Complex Experiments, by Susan Athey and Guido Imbens

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 Here's a tantalizing set of slides about online experiments Designing Complex Experiments: Some Recent Developments SUSAN ATHEY AND GU...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Pediatric Heart Transplants: rethinking the waitlist, by Power, Sweat...Almond et al.

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 Here's a paper on the design of the waitlist for pediatric heart transplants.  It's accompanied by an editorial in the journal, and...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

How Do Financial Obstacles Affect Decision-Making Among Potential Living Organ Donors?

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  Here's a report on the effects of helping living organ donors with their expenses. Mandell, Rebecca J., Abigail R. Smith, Kimberly A. ...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Interviews, flyouts and offers in the job market for new PhD economists, 2024-25

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  We may still be in a period of disequilibrium in the conduct of the market for new economists, as Zoom interviews have replaced in-person ...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Theory brunch at Stanford

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  A Sunday brunch to welcome Fuhito Kojima back for a summer visit brought together an eclectic group of Stanford theorists, past, present, ...