Nobel Economists as Matchmakers in Medicine and Schools

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- How should New York City assignstudents to schools? How should young doctors be matched withresidencies? How should lifesaving kidneys be allocated todesperate patients?

For the answers, we have the work of the 2012 winners ofthe Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Alvin Roth, aHarvard colleague who is soon leaving for Stanford, and LloydShapley, a professor emeritus at the University of California,Los Angeles.