Can monetary incentives increase organ donations?

Markus Eyting, Arne Hosemann and Magnus Johannesson

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 142, issue C, 56-58

Abstract: We test in an experiment if a monetary incentive or a charity incentive can motivate people to fill in the German organ donor card and thereby increase the number of organ donors. We find that a monetary incentive significantly increases the number of organ donors whereas the charity incentive does not.

Keywords: Organ donation; Experiment; Monetary incentive; Charity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D3 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.03.005

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