Q. At Columbia University, there are ads in the student newspaper offering to pay tall blondes with high SAT's $8,000 to $20,000 for eggs to be used by infertile couples. Is this a good price?
A. Hmm. I think the price for Harvard eggs is higher, around $25,000. There have been ads offering even $50,000 and $100,000 for "exceptional eggs" though no one's ever come forward to say they've gotten that much.
Debora Spar, of the Harvard Business School, is studying the economics of fertility treatments. She was interviewed in February by the Claudia Dreifus: An Economist Examines the Business of Fertility (New York Times, Feb 28)
Do they have to be real blondes or can they be fake blondes?
Posted by: tom | May 24, 2006 at 06:16 AM