Getting More Organs for Transplantation

Judd B. Kessler and Alvin Roth

Scholarly Articles from Harvard University Department of Economics

Abstract: Organs for transplantation are a scarce resource. Paying to increase the supply of organs is illegal in much of the world. We review efforts to increase transplantation by increasing the supply of available organs from living and deceased donors. Progress has been made in increasing the availability of living donor kidneys through kidney exchange. Recent legislation in Israel aims at encouraging deceased donation by awarding priority for receiving organs to registered donors. We also explore the manner in which organ donation is solicited and present evidence to suggest that some recent movement towards "mandated choice" may be counterproductive.

Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (19)

Published in American Economic Review

Downloads: (external link)
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3020884 ... anLessons_PP_v10.pdf (application/pdf)
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3020884 ... anLessons_PP_v10.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Getting More Organs for Transplantation (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hrv:faseco:30208846

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Scholarly Articles from Harvard University Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Office for Scholarly Communication ().