School Choice | Kidney Exchange  | Pandemic Medical Resource Allocation 

Market Design  | Türk Medyası

School Choice

• “School assignment flaws detailed. Two economists study problem, offer relief,”  Boston Globe, 9/12/2003.
• “No Division Required in This School Problem,” New York Times, 3/12/2013. [ PDF ]
• “Expanding Access to High-Quality Schools: Implementing School Choice Algorithms,” Center for American Progress, 11/13/2018.
• “The Opportunities and Risks of K-12 Student Placement Algorithms,” Brookings Institute Report, 28/02/2019.

Kidney Exchange

• “Cross-donor system planned for region’s kidney patients,” Boston Globe, 6/5/2004.
• “Easing the Kidney Shortage,” Wall Street Journal, 6/17/2004. [ PDF ]
• “OR Successes Run the Gamut, From Concrete to Kidneys,” SIAM News, 6/25/2004. [ PDF ]
• “Kidney Exchange: A Life-Saving Application of Matching Theory,” National Science Foundation-Discoveries, 10/5/2005. [ PDF ]
• “Flesh Trade,” Freakonomics, New York Times Magazine, 7/9/2006. [ PDF ]
• “Paired donations give organ transplants a brighter future,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/9/2007. [ PDF ]
• “Undercover Economist: Stakes in kidneys,” Financial Times, July 13, 2007. [ PDF ]
• “A Market for Kidneys?” Wall Street Journal, 11/13/2007. [ PDF ]
• “Kidney Exchange,” NBER Reporter, 11/13/2913.
• “The Economics of Hope: Kidney Exchange,” The Boston College Chronicle, 03/03/2014. [ VIDEO ]
• “Big Data’s Effect on Organ Transplant Wait Lists,” Mashable, 06/23/2014.
• “From Research to Reward: Matching Kidney Donors with Those Who Need Them—and Other Explorations in Economics,” National Academy of Sciences. 2016. [ VIDEO ]
• “How AI Changed Organ Donation in the US,” Quartz, 09/10/2018.
• “Market Failure in Kidney Exchange,” VoxEU, 11/03/2018.

• “Kidney Swaps Are Revolutionizing a Broken Organ-Donation System in the U.S.” Time, 11/05/2019.

• “How an Economist Helped Thousands Get New a Kidney,” BBC, 12/17,2019.

Pandemic Medical Resource Allocation

• “Markets Can Improve Rationing of Medical Supplies,” Bloomberg Opinion, 04/10/2020.
• “Reserve System Can Help to Address COVID-19 Ventilator Crisis,” BC News, 04/13/2020.
• “Why Science Won’t Ace its COVID-19 Test,” Bloomberg Opinion, 04/18/2020.
• “Who Gets the Ventilator,” Freakonomics, 04/15/2020.
• “How to End the Plasma Shortage for Coranavirus Patients,” Bloomberg Opinion, 05/11/2020. 
• “Who Gets Ventilator Priority,” MIT News, 05/13/2020.
• “Blood Banks Face a Generation Gap in Giving,” Wall Street Journal, 07/17/2020. [ PDF ]

• “Who Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine First? Here’s One Idea,” New York Times, 07/23/2020.

• “Increasing COVID-19 plasma donations,” BC News, 07/28/2020.

• “Will the Hardest-Hit Communities Get the Coronavirus Vaccine?” New York Times, 10/30/2020.
• “The Case for a Covid Vaccine Lottery,” Bloomberg Opinion, 11/09/2020.
• “Vaccine Rollout Could Ease Crisis, But Who Gets it First?” Associated Press, 12/03/2020.
• “A ‘Reserve’ System Can Equitably Allocate Covid-19 Vaccine,” BC News, 12/15/2020.
• “Building Equity into Vaccine Distribution,” MIT News, 02/04/2021.

Market Design

• “Choice Assignments,” Rochester Review, Fall 2005.

• “Getting to know Al Roth and Lloyd Shapley, this year’s Nobel laureates in economics,”  Washington Post, 10/15/2012.

• “Dear Dylan: I am getting ripped off in my group house!” Washington Post Wonkblog, 8/24/2013. [ PDF ]

• “Matchmakers,” Boston College Magazine, Spring 2014. [ PDF ]
• “Lung exchanges: Breathe deeply for the three of us” The Economist, Free Exchange, 9/28/2014.
• “Implementation Issues in 10% Reservation,“ The Hindu, 5/15/2019. [ PDF ]
• “Sequence of Implementation, EWS Quota Outcomes,” The Hindu, 11/01/2022. [ PDF ]

News in the Turkish Media / Türk Medyasından Haberler

• “ÖSYM Sistemi Yanlιş,” Aktüel, 30 Ağustos 2001.

• “Böbrek takas havuzu üzerinde çalışıyor,” Milliyet, 28 Aralık 2003.

• “Amerika’da Sağlık Sistemini Değiştiren Türkler,” Dünya,  24 Ağustos 2010.

• “Nobel Ekonomi ödülü Türklerle böbrek takasını çözen Roth’a,” Milliyet, 16 Ekim 2012.
• “Nobel ÖSYM’ye Gitti!,” Radikal, 16 Ekim 2012.
• “Nuran Çakmakçı ile Söyleşi,” Hürriyet, 28 Ekim 2012.
• “Ekonomi Nobel Ödülüne Bilkent Mezunu Profesörlerden Büyük Katkı,” GazeteBilkent, 31 Aralık, 2012.
• “Serbest Siyasa Söyleşileri – VI: Tayfun Sönmez ve M. Utku Ünver,” SerbestSiyasa, 8 Nisan 2013.
• “Türkiye Geliştirdi, ABD Uyguladı,” ntvmsnbc, 13 Mayıs, 2013.
• “Ekonomi Profesörü ”Böbrek Havuzu” Problemini Cözdü,” Turuncu, Hürriyet, 11 Ocak, 2014.
• “Innovative Capacity of Turkey,” Today’s Zaman, 2/10/2015.
• “Ekonomik Organ Nakli,” Hürriyet, 2 Ağustos 2015.
• “Türkiye’de Organ Takas Merkezi Kuruluyor,” T24, 27 Mayıs 2018.
• “Organ takas merkezi yılda 5 bin hayat kurtaracak,”  Hürriyet, 27 Mayıs 2018.

• “Bu merkezden iyilik saçılıyor!” Malatyatime, 7 Ağustos  2019.