Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Arguments against paying for plasma and other Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)

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 Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) have a growing, often lifesaving role in modern medicine, from breast milk for premature babies, to kidne...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Practical market design makes policy recommendations (which can violate NBER publication policy)

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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) publishes a widely read series of working papers, before publication in refereed journals. T...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Peter Singer interview in the NYT

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  The NYT interviews the eminent philosopher: Peter Singer Wants to Shatter Your Moral Complacency   By David Marchese Q. "I think of y...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Behavioral market design (in the JEP)

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 The Fall 2024  Journal of Economic Perspective s has three papers on behavioral market design: Symposium: Behavioral Incentive Compatibi...
Friday, November 8, 2024

Realistic college application advice, by Ali and Shorrer in the AER

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 Here's a nice paper modeling the advice that high school guidance counselors traditionally give about college applications, reflecting ...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Summer internship with Kominers et al. at a16z

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  Scott Kominers writes "Any chance you could blogvertise this internship?" : "a16z crypto summer internship, with substanti...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Abortion on the ballot

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 And in other news, we're in new territory for the American experiment.  This will surely have effects on controversial markets (among o...

A(nother) movie about kidney donation

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 When it rains it pours: after yesterday's post about Abundant , here's  a trailer for another movie about kidney donation, from th...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Kidney and liver donation: the movie trailer for Abundant

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  You can see the 1.5-minute trailer for the movie here , or here . ########## Earlier:  Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Abundant: a moving docu...