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The shortage of kidneys for transplant : altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys

Becker, Gary Stanley; Elias, Julio Jorge; Ye, Karen J. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 202 (2022), pp. 211-226

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Altruism or Solidarity? The Motives for Organ Donation and Two Proposals

Saunders, Ben - 2012

between altruism and solidarity – a more restricted form of other‐concern, limited to members of a particular group – then … most organ donors exhibit solidarity, rather than altruism. If organ donation really must be altruistic, then we have … reasons to worry about the motives of existing donors. However, I argue that altruism is not necessary, because organ donation …

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An analysis of economic incentives to encourage organ donation : evidence from Chile

Parada-Contzen, Marcela; Vásquez, Felipe - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-18

We perform a cost–benefit analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indifferent between donating and not donating a kidney while alive using Chilean data. We find that monetary incentives of...

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Waiting to Give

Craig, Ashley - 2014

We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes more costly. Exploiting a natural variation in which donor wait times are random, we use the...

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The human and economic dimensions of altruism : the case of organ transplantation

Epstein, Richard A. - In: The journal of legal studies 37 (2008) 2/1, pp. 459-501

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The economics of organ transplantation

Thorne, Emanuel David - 2006

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Altruistically unbalanced kidney exchange

Sönmez, Tayfun; Ünver, M. Utku - 2011

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The medical community's opposition to organ markets : ethics or economics?

Barnett, Andrew H. - In: Review of industrial organization : RIO 8 (1993) 6, pp. 669-678

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Altruism Exchanges and the Kidney Shortage

Choi, Stephen J. - 2014

donate funds to charities chosen by donors. And we propose that charities be permitted to create Altruism Exchanges, which … donations. Altruism Exchanges would solve two significant problems with the current system of voluntary kidney donations: the …

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The Human and Economic Dimensions of Altruism : The Case of Organ Transplantation

Epstein, Richard A. - 2008

economic model of altruism that helps explain how markets with altruistic participants operate in ways similar to ordinary …

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