Monday, September 30, 2024

Golden Goose awards for woodpeckers, penguins, and artificial intelligence

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  The Golden Goose awards are given each year to " recognize the tremendous human and economic benefits of federally funded research by...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Gaming a bike sharing algorithm

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 Jacob Leshno points out this NYT story. He writes "The gist of it is that Citi bike pays to deliver bikes to stations with shortages,...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Milgrom testifies in Google's defense

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 Paul Milgrom forwards me this account of his testimony as an expert for the defense in the DOJ v Google trial on display ads. Expert testi...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Are economist for sale?

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 Here's a recent NYT column: The Justice Department’s antitrust chief thinks conflicts of interest are degrading scholarship  By Peter ...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Many preference signals as a soft cap on number of applications in medical residency matching

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  Here's a review article on matching for medical residents,  with particular attention to neurosurgery, in the Cureus Journal of Medica...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Mohammad Akbarpour, interviewed by Scott Cunningham

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Here's an interview of Mohammad Akbarpour , as part of Scott Cunningham 's growing series of interviews of interesting economists. (...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Abundant: a moving documentary about living organ donors

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This past weekend I streamed a preview of a new movie about  living organ donors, kidneys (mostly) and some livers. It's called Abundant...
Monday, September 23, 2024

A 40 year old proof about top trading cycles is corrected (by two Berkeley grad students)

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 Science (and math) can be self-correcting, sometimes slowly.  Here's an article that corrects the first proof that the top trading cycl...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Opt-out organ donation in Britain

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 Opt-out is not a panacea for deceased organ donation in countries in which family consent is required for donation. More families refusing ...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Should fox hunters be a protected minority?

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  The NYT reports on the question: Fox Hunters in the U.K. Want Protected Status Under Discrimination Law. A lobbying group is preparing a b...
Friday, September 20, 2024

HRSA has accepted bids to reform deceased donor organ allocation

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 Here's yesterday's HRSA press release. (Item 2, Supporting OPTN IT Modernization, might be of most interest to most readers of this...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Getting more transplants,, two recent articles

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  Frank McCormick, and Martha Gershon point me to two articles about increasing kidney transplants. The first one is by Dylan Matthews in Vo...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

More on non-anonymous kidney exchange in India

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 Here's some further description of how kidney exchange is conducted in India without authorization* to use nondirected donors (so that ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Yale celebrates Vahideh Manshadi

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Vahideh Manshadi is the Michael Jordan of Operations.  Here's the announcement from Yale News: Vahideh Manshadi appointed the Michael H....
Monday, September 16, 2024

Preference signaling for urologists (including Flush Day)

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  It's been very interesting for me to watch the growth of preference signaling to combat congestion in applications and interviews, fro...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Practical insights from market design, in Japan

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I was recently interviewed by Fuhito Kojima as part of a symposium conducted by the University of Tokyo Market Design Center on practical i...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Interview about repugnance (and this blog) in Hungary

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  Here's a link to an interview about repugnance in the Hungary Daily News. The  last question and answer was about this blog. “Repugnan...