The gastroenterology fellowship Match: How it failed and why it could succeed once again

Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin E.

doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2004.05.034

Cited by 68 publications

(51 citation statements)

References 22 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Niederle and Roth (2003b, 2004 and Niederle, Proctor and show that the labor market for gastroenterology fellows, after they stopped using a centralized match, once more unraveled, with thin and dispersed markets, and reduced mobility. 15 It seems that the market 13 Peter Coles (2005) discusses the extent of manipulation of strategies in simple matching environments.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts

Niederle¹

2006

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Following the recently dismissed antitrust lawsuit against the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP), Jeremy Bulow and Jonathan Levin (2006) propose a simple matching model in which firms set impersonal salaries simultaneously before matching with workers, which leads to lower aggregate wages than any competitive outcome. I model a feature of the NRMP, ordered contracts, that allows firms to set several contracts while determining the order in which they try to fill them, which has different properties than standard models with multiple contracts. Furthermore, the low wages of Bulow and Levin are no longer an equilibrium, but competitive wages are.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts

Niederle¹

2006

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This has been seen with the Gastroenterology Match (11,12). Such cross-fertilization has many advantages to programs and applicants, including diversity of ideas and experiences.…”

Section: Nephrology Matchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adult Nephrology Fellowship Training in the United States

Rosenberg¹

2007

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article reviews trends and issues related to adult nephrology fellowship education in the United States. The number of nephrology fellowship programs and trainees has continued to increase slowly despite limitations in funding of graduate medical education. The use of the Electronic Residency Application System has provided information for the first time on the number, demographics, and behavior of applicants that can be used as baseline data for tracking trends in fellowship applications and for formulating training policies. Issues that nephrology training programs face are discussed in this review: (1) A more stringent graduate medical education regulatory environment, (2) T he objective of this article is to provide a summary of the trends and issues in adult nephrology fellowship education in the United States. Future decisions on education and policy issues require accurate information regarding the demographics of nephrology trainees and programs. These data are available from several national sources and are reviewed. With the use of an electronic application system, data are now available for the first time about the number and demographics of applicants for nephrology training. As the specialty of nephrology evolves and the training environment changes, fellowship programs will have to deal with a number of important matters. This article discusses issues that are related to accreditation, a formal match in nephrology, workforce needs, and further subspecialization. These issues are complex and often controversial but are raised to foster constructive dialogue among the relevant constituencies.

show abstract

“…While we know of about a hundred markets that have been organized by a stable matching mechanism, we know of only a handful that have failed (Niederle and Roth, 2004a), and so * Niederle: Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, and NBER; Roth: Harvard Business School and Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF and helpful conversations and collaboration with Deborah Proctor.…”

Section: The Rise and Fall Of The Gastroenterology Matchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the demise of the match, the market unraveled once again, and interviews for gastroenterology fellowships moved steadily earlier (Niederle and Roth, 2004a). Compared to internal-medicine subspecialties that continued to use the MSMP, the bulk of gastroenterology interviews had moved two months earlier for positions starting in 2003, and three months earlier for positions starting in 2005 (and 20 months before employment would begin).…”

Section: A Timing and Market Thicknessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Gastroenterology Fellowship Market: Should There Be a Match?

Niederle

Roth

2005

American Economic Review

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We are helping a task force of the American Gastroenterology Association to evaluate the current state of the (decentralized) market for gastroenterology fellows, and to assess the prospects of reorganizing it via a suitably designed centralized clearinghouse, a "match." This market used a match from 1986 until the late 1990s. Starting in 1996, participation in the match declined precipitously, and it was formally abandoned after 1999. Consequently, the experience of this market when the match was in place, in comparison to the periods before and since, allows an assessment of the effects of the match. An analysis of how the match failed in the 1990s yields insights into the prospects for success of a new match. These events offer economists a rare window on how decentralized labor markets clear, and on how market clearinghouses succeed and fail.

show abstract

The gastroenterology fellowship Match: How it failed and why it could succeed once again

Cited by 68 publications

References 22 publications

Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts

Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts

Adult Nephrology Fellowship Training in the United States

The Gastroenterology Fellowship Market: Should There Be a Match?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About