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Matching Kidney Donors with Those Who Need Them - and Other Explorations in Economics
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... "Economics is about the real world," said Alvin Roth, a Stanford University economist, when he won the Nobel Prize in 2012 for his work on matching markets, including the kidney donor matching problem. "We are interested in how people lead their lives." The kidney donor dilemma is the perfect challenge for social scientists, because they are adept at studying complex systems, figuring out how they go wrong and how they can be improved.
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... Another landmark, called the "top trading cycle algorithm," was added to the map in 1974 when economist Herbert Scarf and Shapley showed how a market can be designed to allow the trade of indivisible goods without using money. Alvin Roth (above and in yel This may sound purely theoretical, but these algorithms are great for solving low gown below)
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... Soon transplant centers in New England and the Midwest were using the economists' innovation, matching more patients and donors, and performing more kidney transplants. The improvements made transplants safer and saved millions of dollars in health care costs by getting people off dialysis.
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... For more than 150 years, it has provided independent, objective scientific advice to the nation. © 2016 by the National Academy of Sciences Photo and Illustration Credits: Alvin Roth: Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe • Kidney transplant operation: Roger West, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine • Transplant chain graphic: Adapted from PKD Foundation, pkdcure.org • Michael Rees and patients: Andy Morrison/The Blade • Match Day couple: UT Southwestern Medical Center • NYC eighth-graders receive offer letters: Stephanie Snyder/Chalkbeat
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