Five-Year Plan Update?

 How time flies. Hmmm.

In my (most recent) prior post, of, uh, five years or so ago, I referred to five papers I was in some stage of working on/thinking about. I will update the situation with those papers, and mention the next, short turnaround project.

I'll take the five papers in the reverse order in which they appeared in the prior post:

(5) "Compensated Live Kidney Donations," co-authored with my friend Randy Beard. Here it sits, as it did before, on ssrn. Nothing of note has been accomplished since that posting, alas. I have a vague notion to turn it into a more fun, shorter paper, titled along the lines of "What Would the Touch of Filthy Lucre Mean for Kidney Donations"? But I can't even bring myself to express that vague notion as a loose commitment. 

(4) The cocaine regulation paper has transmogrified into an article in the Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy (Vol. 5, Issue 1, 7-12, 2021), pdf available here. Happy about this one.

(3) The Parthenon Marbles paper has been retitled! (OK, it has been significantly updated and revised, too.) The new title is "Athens or London?: The Parthenon Marbles and Economic Efficiency," and it will soon be available to the world in the online journal Social Sciences & Humanities Open. I imagine that the published version can be tracked (when available) at the updated ssrn link, here.

(2)  I was hoping to post my casino regulation paper on ssrn by July 8, 2017 -- I was a few weeks late, but here it is. But revising this paper is my current research activity -- this one is getting a new title, too. Fortunately, casino regulation is an evergreen topic! I want to submit the revised version within a few days -- though exactly where, I am not sure.

(1) I did post "Vice Policy in Russia: Alcohol, Tobacco, Gambling," on ssrn as intended, though about ten days late. But a revised version, available here, has been published in Policy Sciences. The published version has been available for a couple years, but the official issue publication date (I just now learned) is 2022. I also should update the nDrafts reader on my plan to improve my Russian language skills. I have done that, mainly via Duolingo (which, alas, is rather limited in its Russian content relative to languages like French or Spanish). But my frequent travel to Ukraine and Russia has come to a halt, and world events are such that I expect that halt to be maintained for some time -- so the shine is off my desire to improve my Russian. French beckons, however.

Why have I updated nDrafts after a lapse of five years? Because I have a very tight deadline to write a paper on drug prohibition, so I am reviving my Five Drafts (and relatedly, nDrafts) method.