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- 2011
- Article
A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction
By: Eyal Ert, Ido Erev and Alvin E. Roth
Two independent, but related, choice prediction competitions are organized that focus on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games: one focuses on predicting the choices of the first mover and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The...
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Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Behavior;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Competition;
Motivation and Incentives;
Game Theory;
Fairness
Ert, Eyal, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth. "A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction." Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2, no. 3 (September 2011): 257–276.
- 2008
- Chapter
Matching and Market Design
By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sonmez
Matching is the part of economics concerned with who transacts with whom and how. Models of matching, starting with the Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm, have been particularly useful in studying labour markets and in helping design clearinghouses to fix...
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- 2014
- Working Paper
Don't Take 'No' for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations
By: Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth
Over 10,000 people in the U.S. die each year while waiting for an organ. Attempts to increase organ transplantation have focused on changing the registration question from an opt-in frame to an active choice frame. We analyze this change in California and show it...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Health Care and Treatment;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Health Industry
Kessler, Judd B., and Alvin E. Roth. "Don't Take 'No' for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20378, August 2014.
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
Market Design By: Roth, Alvin E. Abstract—Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces...
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Dina Gerdeman
- June 2008
- Article
Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?
By: Christopher D. Harner, Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa and Serena S. Hu
Currently, approximately ninety percent of the six hundred twenty graduating orthopaedic residents are planning on entering a post-graduate fellowship. Since January of 2005, two of the largest fellowship match programs, Sports Medicine and Spine Surgery, were...
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Keywords:
Medical Specialties;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Employment;
Market Timing;
Marketplace Matching;
Health Industry
Harner, Christopher D., Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa, and Serena S. Hu. "Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?" Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: American Volume 90 (June 2008): 1375–1384.
- May 1999
- Article
The Effect of Adding a Constant to All Payoffs: Experimental Investigation, and a Reinforcement Learning Model with Self-Adjusting Speed of Learning
By: Ido Erev, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Alvin E. Roth
Erev, Ido, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Effect of Adding a Constant to All Payoffs: Experimental Investigation, and a Reinforcement Learning Model with Self-Adjusting Speed of Learning." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 39, no. 1 (May 1999): 111–128.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation
By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Unver
Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a puzzle, since unraveling can only occur when firms...
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Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Unver. "Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-095, May 2010.
- Article
What Will Be Needed for the New GI Fellowship Match to Succeed?
By: Muriel Niederle, Deborah D. Proctor and Alvin E. Roth
Niederle, Muriel, Deborah D. Proctor, and Alvin E. Roth. "What Will Be Needed for the New GI Fellowship Match to Succeed?" Gastroenterology 130, no. 1 (January 2006): 218–224.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
By: Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
Kojima, Fuhito, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16028, May 2010.
- June 2005
- Article
The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)
By: C. Nicholas McKinney, Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
McKinney, C. Nicholas, Muriel Niederle, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)." American Economic Review 95, no. 3 (June 2005): 878–889.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation
By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Unver
Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a puzzle, since unraveling can only occur when firms...
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Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Unver. "Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15006, May 2009.
- August 2008
- Article
The Gastroenterology Fellowship Match: The First Two Years
By: Muriel Niederle, Deborah D. Proctor and Alvin E. Roth
Niederle, Muriel, Deborah D. Proctor, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Gastroenterology Fellowship Match: The First Two Years." Gastroenterology 135, no. 2 (August 2008): 344–346.
- Article
A Choice Prediction Competition for Market Entry Games: An Introduction
By: Ido Erev, Eyal Ert and Alvin E. Roth
A choice prediction competition is organized that focuses on decisions from experience in market entry games (http://sites.google.com/site/gpredcomp/ and http://www.mdpi.com/si/games/predict-behavior/). The competition is based on two experiments: An estimation...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Learning;
Market Entry and Exit;
Game Theory;
Behavior;
Competition
Erev, Ido, Eyal Ert, and Alvin E. Roth. "A Choice Prediction Competition for Market Entry Games: An Introduction." Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (June 2010): 117–136.
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Working PapersThe Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Abstract New...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation
By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Ünver
Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a puzzle, since unraveling can only occur when firms...
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Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Ünver. "Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation." Games 4, no. 2 (June 2013): 243–282. (Special Issue on Games and Matching Markets.)
- March 2006
- Article
The Dynamics of Law Clerk Matching: An Experimental and Computational Investigation of Proposals for Reform of the Market
By: Ernan E. Haruvy, Alvin E Roth and M. Utku Unver
Haruvy, Ernan E., Alvin E Roth, and M. Utku Unver. "The Dynamics of Law Clerk Matching: An Experimental and Computational Investigation of Proposals for Reform of the Market." Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 30, no. 3 (March 2006): 457–486.
- 2013
- Article
Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
By: Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
Accommodating couples has been a long-standing issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. This article's main...
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Keywords:
Market Design;
Marketplace Matching;
Balance and Stability;
Jobs and Positions;
Family and Family Relationships;
Health Care and Treatment;
Employment Industry;
Health Industry
Kojima, Fuhito, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128, no. 4 (November 2013): 1585–1632.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the New York City High School Match
By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
- December 2009
- Article
Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match
By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Secondary Education;
Marketplace Matching;
Performance Efficiency;
Mathematical Methods;
Motivation and Incentives;
Strategy;
Balance and Stability
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match." American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009). (AER links to access the Appendix and Downloadable Data Set.)