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2026

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109
Citations
66280
World Ranking
63
National Ranking
51

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2012 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.
  • 2012 - Nobel Prize for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 1983 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1983 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Alvin E. Roth is primarily affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a significant focus on Medicine, including subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Transplantation, Economics and Econometrics, Surgery, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work covers several topics, including:

  • Organ Donation and Transplantation
  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Blood donation and transfusion practices

Alvin E. Roth has authored multiple papers published in notable venues. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Popular repugnance contrasts with legal bans on controversial markets," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Efficiency, Justified Envy, and Incentives in Priority-Based Matching," 2020, American Economic Review Insights
  • "Promoting Ethical Payment in Human Infection Challenge Studies," 2021, The American Journal of Bioethics
  • "Kidney Exchange: An Operations Perspective," 2021, Management Science
  • "The design and performation of markets: a discussion," 2021, AMS Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alvin E. Roth include:

  • Michael A. Rees
  • Judd B. Kessler
  • Itai Ashlagi
  • Ignazio R. Marino
  • Frank McCormick

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Transplantation
  • Transplant International
  • The American Journal of Bioethics

Alvin E. Roth has contributed to book publications from prominent academic presses, including:

  • Princeton University Press - "The Handbook of Experimental Economics," 2020
  • Cambridge University Press - "Online and Matching-Based Market Design," 2023

The scientist has received a number of awards and honors recognizing their contributions, including:

  • Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economics, 2012, for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design
  • Nobel Prize, 2012, for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, 2018
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1984
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society, 1983
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1983

Best Publications

  • Bargaining and Market Behavior in Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Pittsburgh, and Tokyo: An Experimental Study

    Alvin E. Roth;Vesna Prasnikar;Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara;Shmuel Zamir

  • Two-Sided Matching

    Alvin E. Roth;Marilda A. Oliveira Sotomayor

  • The handbook of experimental economics

    John H. Kagel;Alvin E. Roth

  • The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Volume 2

    John H. Kagel;Alvin E. Roth

  • Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis

    Alvin E. Roth;Marilda A. Oliveira Sotomayor

  • Predicting How People Play Games: Reinforcement Learning in Experimental Games with Unique, Mixed Strategy Equilibria

    Ido Erev;Alvin E. Roth

  • Learning in Extensive-Form Games: Experimental Data and Simple Dynamic Models in the Intermediate Term*

    Alvin E. Roth;Ido Erev

  • 4. Bargaining Experiments

    Alvin E. Roth

  • The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory

    Alvin E. Roth

  • Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet

    Alvin E. Roth;Axel Ockenfels

  • The Economist as Engineer: Game Theory, Experimentation, and Computation as Tools for Design Economics

    Alvin E. Roth

  • An Experimental Study of Sequential Bargaining

    J. Ochs;A. E. Roth

  • The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives

    Alvin E. Roth

  • Axiomatic models of bargaining

    Alvin E. Roth

  • The Shapley value : essays in honor of Lloyd S. Shapley

    Alvin E. Roth

  • The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians: Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design

    Alvin E. Roth;Elliott Peranson

  • The New York City High School Match

    Atila Abdulkadiroğlu;Parag A. Pathak;Alvin E. Roth

  • The Boston Public School Match

    Atila Abdulkadiroğlu;Parag A. Pathak;Alvin E. Roth;Tayfun Sönmez

  • Learning in High Stakes Ultimatum Games: An Experiment in the Slovak Republic

    Robert Slonim;Alvin E. Roth

  • Pairwise kidney exchange

    Alvin E. Roth;Tayfun Sönmez;M. Utku Ünver

Frequent Co-Authors

Muriel Niederle
Muriel Niederle Stanford University
M. Utku Ünver
M. Utku Ünver Boston College
Tayfun Sönmez
Tayfun Sönmez Boston College
Ido Erev
Ido Erev Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Axel Ockenfels
Axel Ockenfels University of Cologne
J. Keith Murnighan
J. Keith Murnighan Northwestern University
John H. Kagel
John H. Kagel The Ohio State University
Ernan Haruvy
Ernan Haruvy McGill University

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