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What Will Be Needed for the New GI Fellowship Match to Succeed?

By: Muriel Niederle, Deborah D. Proctor and Alvin E. Roth
Keywords: Health; Education; Success
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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
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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
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The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)

By: C. Nicholas McKinney, Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
Keywords: Health; Labor; Failure
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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.
  • 2006
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Ancient History of Experimental Economics and Social Psychology: Reminiscences and Analysis of a Fruitful Collaboration

By: J. Keith Murnighan and Alvin E. Roth
Keywords: History; Social Psychology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Economics
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Murnighan, J. Keith, and Alvin E. Roth. "Ancient History of Experimental Economics and Social Psychology: Reminiscences and Analysis of a Fruitful Collaboration." In Social Psychology and Economics, edited by David de Cremer, J. Keith Murnighan, and Marcel Zeelenberg, 321–333. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
  • 05 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

you may not be able to learn anywhere else," says Alvin E. Roth, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Unit at HBS and a longtime champion of experimental economics. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2014
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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... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Industry
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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.
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-season College Football Bowls

By: Guillaume R. Frechette, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Unver
Many markets have "unraveled" and experienced inefficient, early, dispersed transactions, and subsequently developed institutions to delay transaction timing. However, it has previously proved difficult to measure and identify the resulting efficiency gains. Prior to... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Television Entertainment; Market Timing; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Sports Industry
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Frechette, Guillaume R., Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Unver. "Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-season College Football Bowls." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-010, July 2008.
  • 06 Nov 2007
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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 gastroenterologists participated in a labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

By: Christopher Avery, Alvin E. Roth and Soohyung Lee
This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South Korean setting where the national government sets rules governing applications. We identify some basic facts about the behavior of colleges before and... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Higher Education; Policy; Government and Politics; Education Industry; South Korea
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Avery, Christopher, Alvin E. Roth, and Soohyung Lee. "College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20774, December 2014.
  • 2008
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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... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Outcome or Result; Mathematical Methods
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Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth, and Tayfun Sonmez. "Matching and Market Design." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. 2nd ed. Edited by Steven Derlauf and Larry Blume. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • 2012
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The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange

By: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees and Alvin E. Roth
It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of patient-donor pairs, (almost) efficient kidney exchange can be achieved by using at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Complexity; Performance Efficiency; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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Ashlagi, Itai, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18202, July 2012.
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The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

By: Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard A. Posner and Alvin E. Roth
Keywords: Markets; Jobs and Positions; Law
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Avery, Christopher, Christine Jolls, Richard A. Posner, and Alvin E. Roth. "The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks." University of Chicago Law Review 74, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 447–486.
  • 2006
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Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sonmez
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Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Tayfun Sonmez. "Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 11965, January 2006.
  • May 2005
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The Boston Public School Match

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sonmez
Keywords: Education; Boston
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Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Tayfun Sonmez. "The Boston Public School Match." American Economic Review 95, no. 2 (May 2005): 368–371.
  • October 2003
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Relative versus Absolute Speed of Adjustment in Strategic Environments: Responder Behavior in Ultimatum Games

By: David J. Cooper, Nick Feltovich, Alvin E. Roth and Rami Zwick
Keywords: Strategy; Behavior; Games, Gaming, and Gambling
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Cooper, David J., Nick Feltovich, Alvin E. Roth, and Rami Zwick. "Relative versus Absolute Speed of Adjustment in Strategic Environments: Responder Behavior in Ultimatum Games." Experimental Economics 6, no. 2 (October 2003): 181–207.
  • 2013
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The Handbook of Market Design

By: Nir Vulkan, Alvin E. Roth and Zvika Neeman
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Vulkan, Nir, Alvin E. Roth and Zvika Neeman, eds. The Handbook of Market Design. Oxford University Press, 2013.
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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... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Learning; Market Entry and Exit; Game Theory; Behavior; Competition
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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.
  • May 2011
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Nonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney Paired Donation—Revisited

By: Itai Ashlagi, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees
Since 2008 kidney exchange in America has grown in part from the incorporation of non-directed donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed simultaneously ("domino paired donation," DPD) or... View Details
Keywords: ABO Incompatibility; Allosensitization; Paired Kidney Exchange; Regional Sharing; Simulation Models; Transplantation Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Logistics; United States
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Ashlagi, Itai, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth, and Michael A. Rees. "Nonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney Paired Donation—Revisited." American Journal of Transplantation 11, no. 5 (May 2011): 984–994.
  • 2009
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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... View Details
Keywords: Labor; Marketplace Matching; Quality; Competition; Balance and Stability
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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
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The Gastroenterology Fellowship Match: The First Two Years

By: Muriel Niederle, Deborah D. Proctor and Alvin E. Roth
Keywords: Health; Education
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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.
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