Alvin E. Roth
Nobel laureate in economics known for market design and kidney exchange.
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Roth is known for applying economic theory to real-world problems in game theory, market design, and experimental economics.[1]
Key facts and history
He entered Columbia University's engineering school at age 16 without having graduated from high school.[2] Roth earned a bachelor's degree in Operations Research from Columbia in 1971.[3] After teaching at the University of Illinois, he became the Andrew W. Mellon professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1982.[4] Roth is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[5]
What the cited sources add
The UBS Nobel Perspectives interview describes Roth as the founding father of market design who developed ways to match new doctors with hospitals, children with school districts, and kidney donors with patients.[6] Roth explains that market design is "an outward-facing part of economics" that solves problems people face in everyday life.[6] He became interested in game theory in graduate school at Stanford, studying operations research under Bob Wilson.[6] Roth stated, "We need a global solution to the global problem of kidney disease".[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Alvin E. Roth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Susan Adams, "Un-Freakonomics: A Harvard professor uses economics to save lives, assign doctors and get kids into the right high school." Forbes, August 9, 2010; Leon Neyfakh, "The Matchmaker: The Harvard economist who stopped just studying the world and began trying to fix it", The Boston Globe, April 3, 2011. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Alvin E. Roth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Alvin Roth", www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Alvin E. Roth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Niklas Magnusson and Josiane Kremer, Roth, Shapley Win Nobel Economics Prize for Matching Theory", Bloomberg.com, October 15, 2012. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Alvin E. Roth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chute, "Professor with Pitt ties wins Nobel economics prize", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 15, 2012; Alvin E. Roth Biography Faculty and Research. Accessed on June 6, 2008; Katherine Mangan, "Stanford Lures Alvin Roth and 2 Other Economists From Harvard", The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2012.; Al Roth's Game Theory, Experimental Economics, and Market Design Page (accessed 2013-27-04). (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Alvin E. Roth" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Alvin E. Roth Biography Faculty and Research. Accessed on June 6, 2008; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation R Fellows Page . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Accessed on July 6, 2008; Members of the Academy of Arts & Sciences (October 2007). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Accessed on July 6, 2008; Fellows of the Econometric Society (March 2008). Econometric Society. Accessed on July 6, 2008; Alvin E. Roth. National Bureau of Economic Research. Accessed on July 6, 2008; "Market Design", The Golden Goose Award; "Alvi en.wikipedia.org
- Alvin Roth. https://www.ubs.com/microsites/nobel-perspectives/en/laureates/alvin-roth.html in UBS Nobel Perspectives interview, 2012.. facts only, no text reused. ubs.com
- Donation, "Israel, UAE Residents Come Together For Historic Kidney Transplants", www.prnewswire.com. facts only, no text reused. prnewswire.com
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