Gender Male
Alvin is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School.
His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and market design.
The best known of the markets he has designed or redesigned are
the National Resident Matching Program, the market for Gastroenterology fellows, the high school matching system used in New York City and also in Boston Public Schools, and the New England Program for Kidney Exchange.
Alvin is the chair of the American Economic Association's Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and has been a Guggenheim and Sloan fellow.
He received his Ph.D at Stanford University and went to Harvard from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Andrew Mellon Professor of Economics.
