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I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: Always Been Better Interested Make Mathematics Using Work World

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My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

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Topics: Better Graduate Graduate Student Help Interested Making Mathematics Operations Research Student Studied Things Undergraduate Using Work

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Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.

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Topics: About Allow Better Bringing Circumstances Conditions Conducting Controlled Creating Economics Experimental Experiments Field Laboratory Less Seeing Understand Us

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Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.

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Topics: About Broken Design Detail Details Fix Help Market Markets Sufficient Them Understanding

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Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: Absence Around Economics Good Important Interesting Kinds Look Ought Problems Say See Solve Some Techniques Tools World I See

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A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.

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Topics: Economists Exchanges Good Kidney Lot People Surprised

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Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

~Alvin E. Roth

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I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: Could Done Easier Exchange Find First Gee Harvard Help Hospital Kidney Make Might Moved Nearby Organize People Started States Think United United States Way Where

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I gravitated to economics because I'm interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other.

~Alvin E. Roth

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When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: Blood Data Doing Exchange Find Just Kidney Logistics Make Organize Out Preliminary Sure Tests Then True Who Whom Work You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: December 18th, 1951

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