💬 Viewpoint: The CMS IOTA model incentivizes increased kidney transplants by rewarding volume, organ acceptance, and short-term graft survival, but risks remain for equitable access and long-term patient outcomes among those with end-stage kidney disease. ja.ma/4s8ZLTE

She is brilliant, she is modest, she can stage a comeback. Alysa Liu is the QUEEN. QED.

The microsociology & contingency of int'l diplomacy What are the behavioral mechanisms of communications in diplomacy? How do factors exogenous to an interaction affect & inform the meaning of behavior? Intriguing questions motivate 2 book projects Seanon Wong discussed in his CASBS fellows seminar

This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup: a NYT guest essay questioning whether prediction markets are dangerous, the game Organ Attack discussed on the Market Design blog, and a short HBS video on markets and transplantation featuring @alex8chan.bsky.social

Incentives matter (you get more of what you measure). marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/rede...

Dovetails with Chan-Roth 2024 @jpolecon.bsky.social: aligning incentives across the transplant supply chain can saves lives and billions! @CMSGov #transplantation #Healthcare @alroth.bsky.social

Mike Rees, the founder of the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) describes how (with the help of a grant from Stanford) the APKD is helping Brazilian transplant docs get kidney exchange going there. #brazil #econsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/kidn...

www.legacy.com/us/obituarie... John Kagel cultivated the experimental lab and culture at Pitt that we still enjoy. we all know his auction expts, but he also had a long-standing interest in animal behavior, e.g. Demand Curves for Animal Consumers, Commodity-Choice Behavior with Pigeons as Subjects

much discussion of the wages of medical residents ignores that many residency positions are paid at rates established by Medicare, which also has a big influence on the number of residency positions. #econsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/medi...

Today's NYT writes about the largest kidney exchange network, a private company with opaque finances called National Kidney Registry (NKR). The story also raises questions about some of the promises NKR makes through a voucher program. #econsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/nkr-...

Erik has been thinking about AI for a long time (even if not as long as the folks I posted about yesterday). #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/erik...

Why do we turn away from Explainable AI (#XAI)/#interpretability? Strategically or unwittingly. @harvard.edu #HBS d3.harvard.edu/explanations...

The NYT reports with concern the number of foreign citizens receiving organs from deceased donors. One question I have that I haven't seen addressed is how many foreign citizens who die while visiting the US become deceased organ donors? marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... #econsky

New job at Cambridge! Professorship of Public Policy www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...

DEADLINE TODAY: The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. @franciscaantman.bsky.social, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper today! @nber.org #Econsky www.nber.org/conferences/...

Check out the rest of Pitt JM candidate @jiaweilyu.bsky.social 's exciting research too: sites.google.com/view/jiaweil...

My first Southern Economic Association SEA ⁦‪conference! 📢📢 giving a talk on defaults at 2:00-3:45 🌴🌴 I am hoping to meet more folks! (Please DM or email, esp. job market candidates) #southerneconomicassociation #econtwitter @southerneconj.bsky.social

A NYT Magazine feature on a 68-year-old woman facing felony charges after forging documents for a surrogacy arrangement raises sharp questions about parental age limits, reproductive autonomy, and criminalization. More analysis in this week’s review: open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...

Had an amazing time at the @pennchibe.bsky.social conference!! Thanks to Kevin Volpp and the incredible organizing committee! (Thanks @katymilkman.bsky.social!!)

⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰ Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics: econjobmarket.org/positions?sh... 2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ. cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

Practical market design is alive and well in Israel. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/mark...

Current laws on organ donation might reasonably lead one to conclude that society disapproves of saving lives via transplantation. #econsky #medicine #repugnance marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/fune...

New paper by @alex8chan.bsky.social & Kurt Sweat, via @alroth.bsky.social Abstract: We propose amending [NOTA] to permit reimbursement of funeral expenses for deceased organ donors, analogous to current practices for whole-body donors.

The most anticipated book for 2026! I pre-ordered my copies already!

Seeking PhD students for 2026 @ UT Dallas! In the Early Cognition & Communication Lab, we explore the development of communication, abstract thought, and social bonds and consider the role of early exposure to AI. Apply by Nov 15, 2025 bbs.utdallas.edu/departments/... #phdlife #DevSci #CogSci

My friend Mark Granovetter’s famous paper on #weakties is cited more than 3X more than ⁦‪Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson‬⁩’s ⁦‪Nobel-winning masterpiece - it’s worth a read! (A delicious, congruent pairing is work by the ⭐️W.D.Eberle Chair ⁦‪@Stanford.edu‬⁩)

Back at #Tucson for #ESA conference!! It’s going to be 🤩! Can’t wait to see everyone! PLUG: stop by tomorrow (😇😇 Friday 10am for the AI session at Ocotillo), I want your feedback and thoughts on my new work on Explainable AI #XAI #interpretability

(In)Citeful economists #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/cita...

Had a fantastic time at the Econ Dept @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social Loved the thoughtful and open culture, and it was a joy to share/debut my work on preferences for #XAI explainable AI. And yes — I even caught sunny Bergen, so clearly I was spoiled ☀️🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴

Truly amazed by the inspiring culture at @lusemlu.bsky.social — such a warm and engaging department! Thrilled to share my work on opt-in/opt-out, and I can’t wait to visit @lund-university.bsky.social again soon!! 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

🚨 Live from Stanford! 🚨 @alroth.bsky.social at the APKD Palo Alto Summit on Extending Kidney Exchange. Incredible progress happening in #India, #Brazil & beyond on kidney & liver exchange, plus donor-initiated chains. Huge developments —the future is saving more lives. #KidneyExchange

R.I.P. Peter Temin - besides his well known work in economic history he has also contributed to pharmaceutical market design “Nationally, if we keep the current structure, in 50 years only hedge fund managers will be able to afford prescription drugs.”

North Dakota offers a rare natural experiment in #pharmacy #marketdesign/competition: no Walgreens/CVS, and min #PBM vertical integration. A 1963 law fostered decentralized mkt shaping 💊 access. A counterfactual worth watching. Interviewed by @TheHustle thehustle.co/originals/th...

Excited to have my first paper appearing soon in REStud - five years in the making! Paul Milgrom and I show how to extend Walrasian mechanisms to nonconvex markets - with only one additional parameter needed to assure existence. Also Paul’s first REStud paper, if you can believe it!

The @nytimes.com says: "The Bull Market for Economists Is Over." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b.... But Oxford Econ Dept & Nuffield College continue to offer their prestigious 3-year postdoc in economics! 👏 🎯 Deadline 🚨 30 September 🚨 to get offer by Xmas 🎄: economics.web.ox.ac.uk/nuffield-pos...

The NYT reports this morning on some cases in which Organ Procurement Organizations reportedly pressured hospitals prematurely to declare the death of potential donors. #medicine #transplants marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/07/orga...

National Ice Cream Day 2025 is being celebrated today—Sunday, July 20! It’s the third Sunday of July, officially designated by President Ronald Reagan www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/16/n...

Colossal Biosciences has announced it is exploring ways to revive the moa, which went extinct some 600 years ago. But the company’s suggestion that the project has the support of New Zealand’s Indigenous Māori groups has stirred controversy.

A first-in-kind case shows successful on-table reanimation of a pediatric heart from donation after circulatory death, offering a promising method to expand the donor pool for infants awaiting heart transplants. Read the full report: nej.md/4nVvVky #MedSky #Surgery #CardioSky

Great opportunity for market designers. Join University of Mannheim and #ZEW as a Professor of Market Design if you fit the profile: outstanding research, especially on auction or matching markets, experience in policy advice and leadership of teams inomics.com/job/professo...

Market design search in Vienna #econsky #academicsky #cs #marketdesign marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/07/mark...

I talked to Ellen Bryan about JUST how uneven the load still is at home—take a look for one stat that genuinely shocked me. 📖 You can pre-order Having It All now at @barnesandnoble for 25% off! Use code PREORDER25 at checkout. Full interview here: www.wusa9.com/video/entert...

Exclusive: Harvard leaders have discussed creating a center for conservative scholarship as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal.

Here's an interesting looking job search. (I remember a time when there weren't searches for market designers...) #econsky #academicsky #marketdesign marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/07/job-...

Things I look forward to: 🎬 The next Miyazaki film 📄 The next Raj Chetty paper One builds magical worlds. The other quietly drops PDFs that upend what we thought we knew about inequality.

Colleagues in the market design community! Interested in school choice and looking for a 4-year tenure track position? Join me at Lund University. Requirements: max 5 years since completion of PhD, no employment in Sweden since 2021. More info? Contact me or see 👇 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Sometimes you need to move fast, and it helps if you can decide that early... marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

A few thousand reasons I harbor optimism for the future

Let’s go you spurs!!!!

Windfall for @harvard.edu : paid 30 bucks for a copy of the Magna Carta that’s worth about $3M? (a 1297 version was sold at auction in 2007 for $21.3M). Lets find 1,000 more of these… apnews.com/article/harv...