In the Press

• New Stanford Study Sheds Light on Why Some Communities Can Open Sooner Than Others, NBC Bay Area
  An interview about pandemic policy response.

• Iran pays kidney donors. Should the U.S. follow?, PBS News Hour
  A documentary on the state of kidney transplantation in the U.S., in which I discuss issues related to a monetary market for kidneys.

• Are Influencers Overrated?, Stanford Business
  Suraj, Amin, and I discussed our new paper Just a Few Seeds More with Stanford Business.

• United’s way of bumping ‘is very inefficient,’ says auction expert, Yahoo! Finance
  I had a conversation with Yahoo! Finance on auction design when airlines overbook, why endowment effect is important, and why collusion is not a big deal in this context.

• It’s Time to Compensate Kidney Donors, New York Times
  I argued with NYTimes that, if we decide to compensate organ donors (which is a debatable issue on its own), governments can afford to pay them much more than the market-clearning price.

• Need a Kidney? Not Iranian? You’ll Wait, New York Times
  A simple (philosophical) question for which I do not have a clear answer.