The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory
In: Journal of political economy, Band 92, Heft 6, S. 991
ISSN: 0022-3808
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In: Journal of political economy, Band 92, Heft 6, S. 991
ISSN: 0022-3808
In: Journal of political economy
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: American economic review, Band 102, Heft 3, S. 354-359
ISSN: 1944-7981
The growth of kidney exchange presents new challenges for the design of kidney exchange clearinghouses. The players now include directors of transplant centers, who see sets of patient-donor pairs, and can choose to reveal only difficult-to-match pairs to the clearinghouse, while withholding easy-to-match pairs to transplant locally. This reduces the number of transplants. We discuss how the incentives for hospitals to enroll all pairs in kidney exchange can be achieved, and how the concentration of hard to match pairs increases the importance of long, non-simultaneous nondirected donor chains.
In: NBER Working Paper No. w16720
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w13529
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In: American economic review, Band 95, Heft 2, S. 372-375
ISSN: 1944-7981
In: NBER Working Paper No. w10256
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In: Journal of political economy, Band 111, Heft 6, S. 1342-1352
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: American economic review, Band 92, Heft 4, S. 1093-1103
ISSN: 1944-7981
In: American economic review, Band 89, Heft 4, S. 748-780
ISSN: 1944-7981
We report on the design of the new clearinghouse adopted by the National Resident Matching Program, which annually fills approximately 20,000 jobs for new physicians. Because the market has complementarities between applicants and between positions, the theory of simple matching markets does not apply directly. However, computational experiments show the theory provides good approximations. Furthermore, the set of stable matchings, and the opportunities for strategic manipulation, are surprisingly small. A new kind of "core convergence" result explains this; that each applicant interviews only a small fraction of available positions is important. We also describe engineering aspects of the design process. (JEL C78, B41, J44)
In: NBER Working Paper No. w6963
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