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View article: The Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks
The Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks Open
In September of 1998 the Judicial Conference abandoned its most recent attempt to regulate the timing of interviews and offers in the process for hiring federal judicial law clerks. In September of 1999 most prominent law schools abandoned…
View article: The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks
The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks Open
As the new millennium dawned, the market for federal judicial law clerks was in a state of near crisis. The final two clerkship applicants and federal appellate judge quoted above, as well as many others like them, expressed deep and wide-…
View article: Insights From Refusal Patterns for Deceased Donor Kidney Offers
Insights From Refusal Patterns for Deceased Donor Kidney Offers Open
Background. The likelihood that a deceased donor kidney will be used evolves during the allocation process. Transplant centers can either decline an organ offer for a single patient or for multiple patients at the same time. We hypothesize…
View article: Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations
Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations Open
The new European Union (EU) ‘Regulation on standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin (SoHOs) intended for human application’ is based on a long-standing diffidence towards offering compensation to donors of SoHOs. We p…
View article: Normative Properties for Object Allocation Problems: Characterizations and Trade-Offs
Normative Properties for Object Allocation Problems: Characterizations and Trade-Offs Open
We consider the allocation of indivisible objects among agents when monetary transfers are not allowed. Agents have strict preferences over the objects (possibly about not getting any object) and are assigned at most one object. How should…
View article: Early vs Single Match in the Transition to Residency: Analysis Using NRMP Data From 2014 to 2021
Early vs Single Match in the Transition to Residency: Analysis Using NRMP Data From 2014 to 2021 Open
Background An Early Result Acceptance Program (ERAP) has been proposed for obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) to address challenges in the transition to residency. However, there are no available data-driven analyses on the effects of ERAP…
View article: Criminal, Legal, and Ethical Kidney Donation and Transplantation: A Conceptual Framework to Enable Innovation
Criminal, Legal, and Ethical Kidney Donation and Transplantation: A Conceptual Framework to Enable Innovation Open
Criminal, legal, and ethical actions are three very different issues: this applies to all human activities, including living kidney donation and transplantation. Criminal live donor kidney transplantation happens in countries with illegal …
View article: Global kidney chains
Global kidney chains Open
Significance Kidney failure is among the leading causes of death worldwide, and the best treatment is transplantation. However, transplants are in short supply because of shortfalls of transplantable organs and of finances. In the United S…
View article: Payment in challenge studies from an economics perspective
Payment in challenge studies from an economics perspective Open
We largely agree with Grimwade et al’s1 conclusion that challenge trial participants may ethically be paid, including for risk. Here, we add further arguments, clarify some points from the perspective of economics and indicate areas where …
View article: Popular repugnance contrasts with legal bans on controversial markets
Popular repugnance contrasts with legal bans on controversial markets Open
Significance Some jurisdictions ban markets regarded as repugnant. However, many bans foster black markets when the population insufficiently shares the repugnance that inspires the ban. Relationships between repugnance and regulation are …
View article: Global kidney exchange should expand wisely
Global kidney exchange should expand wisely Open
We read with great interest and appreciation the careful consideration and analysis by Ambagtsheer et al. of the most critical ethical objections to Global Kidney Exchange (GKE). Ambagtsheer et al. [1] conclude that implementation of GKE i…
View article: How Market Design Emerged from Game Theory: A Mutual Interview
How Market Design Emerged from Game Theory: A Mutual Interview Open
We interview each other about how game theory and mechanism design evolved into practical market design. When we learned game theory, games were modeled either in terms of the strategies available to the players (“noncooperative games”) or…
View article: Marketplaces, Markets, and Market Design
Marketplaces, Markets, and Market Design Open
Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must accomplish to enable different kinds of markets. Marketplaces can have …
View article: Effect of match-run frequencies on the number of transplants and waiting times in kidney exchange
Effect of match-run frequencies on the number of transplants and waiting times in kidney exchange Open
Numerous kidney exchange (kidney paired donation [KPD]) registries in the United States have gradually shifted to high-frequency match-runs, raising the question of whether this harms the number of transplants. We conducted simulations usi…
View article: Open dialogue between professionals with different opinions builds the best policy
Open dialogue between professionals with different opinions builds the best policy Open
To the Editor: Delmonico and Ascher1Delmonico FL, Ascher NL. Opposition to irresponsible global kidney exchange [published online ahead of print August 21, 2017]. Am J Transplant. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.14473.Google Scholar respond to…
View article: People should not be banned from transplantation only because of their country of origin
People should not be banned from transplantation only because of their country of origin Open
To the Editor: Previously,1Rees MA Paloyo S Roth AE et al.Global kidney exchange: financially incompatible Pairs are not transplantable compatible Pairs.Am J Transplant. 2017; 17: 2743-2744Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (13…
View article: Global kidney exchange: Financially incompatible pairs are not transplantable compatible pairs
Global kidney exchange: Financially incompatible pairs are not transplantable compatible pairs Open
Honest debate makes ideas better; we appreciate our colleagues' engagement. We agree with Wiseman and Gill that global kidney exchange (GKE) must be conducted in an ethical manner that is sensitive to the possibilities of commodification a…
View article: Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp
Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp Open
In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp.The RSD also became the first district to u…
View article: Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New OrleansA Oneapp
Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New OrleansA Oneapp Open
In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to …
View article: Kidney Exchange to Overcome Financial Barriers to Kidney Transplantation
Kidney Exchange to Overcome Financial Barriers to Kidney Transplantation Open
Organ shortage is the major limitation to kidney transplantation in the developed world. Conversely, millions of patients in the developing world with end-stage renal disease die because they cannot afford renal replacement therapy-even wh…
View article: Minimax across a population of games
Minimax across a population of games Open
Most economic experiments designed to test theories carefully choose specific games. This paper reports on an experimental design to evaluate how well the minimax hypothesis describes behavior across a population of games. Past studies sug…
View article: We Need to Take the Next Step
We Need to Take the Next Step Open
To the Editor: In response to our article, Kute et al urge caution when utilizing deceased donor (DD) kidneys to initiate nonsimultaneous extended altruistic donor (NEAD) chains because, in their experience, blood group A donor/blood group…