The role of heterogeneity of patients' preferences in kidney transplantation

Mesfin G Genie, Antonio Nicolò () and Giacomo Pasini
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Antonio Nicolò: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", Università degli Studi di Padova; School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester
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No 2019: 25, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari"

Abstract: We elicit time and risk preferences for kidney transplantation from the entire population of patients of the largest Italian transplant centre using a discrete choice experiment (DCE). We measure patients' willingness-to-wait (WTW), expressed in months, for receiving a kidney with one-year longer expected graft survival, or low risk of complication. Using a mixed logit in WTW-space model, we find heterogeneity in patients' preferences. Our model allows WTW to vary with the patient's age and duration of dialysis. The results suggest that WTW correlates with age and duration of dialysis. The implication for transplant practice is that including individual preferences in kidney allocation protocols that assign "non-ideal" (expanded donor criteria) organs may not only increase the expected survival rates of patients with transplanted organs but also improve patients' satisfaction.

Keywords: Stated preferences; Mixed logit; Willingness to wait; Marginal kidney (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D61 I14 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2019
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