For an incompatible patient-donor pair, kidney exchanges often forbid receipt-before-donation (the patient receives a kidney before the donor donates) and donation-before-receipt, causing a double-coincidence-of-wants problem. Our proposal, the Unpaired kidney exchange algorithm, uses...

This paper investigates whether there is a link between numeracy skill and choice consistency using a population of roughly 250 patients enrolled on the waiting list for kidney transplantation in Italy. Patients participate in a discrete choice experiment (DCE) measuring time and risk...

Vast organ shortages motivated recent efforts to increase the supply of transplantable organs, but we know little about the demand side of the market. We test the implications of a model of organ demand using the universe of U.S. transplant data from 1987 to 2013. Exploiting variation in supply...

Concerns with coercion and irrational decision-making underlie many of the arguments against compensated organ donation. Nonetheless, healthy adults are allowed, and even encouraged, to donate a kidney, without compensation, to patients in dire need of a functional organ. How does the...

In the past decade, policymakers and commentators across the world have called for the introduction of copyright reform based on the fair use model in the United States. Thus far, Israel, Liberia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Taiwan have adopted the fair use...