title: Increasing organ donation via changes in the default choice or allocation rule.
abstract: This research utilizes a laboratory experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative public policies targeted at increasing the rate of deceased donor organ donation. The experiment includes treatments across different default choices and organ allocation rules inspired by the donor registration systems applied in different countries. Our results indicate that the opt-out with priority rule system generates the largest increase in organ donation relative to an opt-in only program. However, sizeable gains are achievable using either a priority rule or opt-out program separately, with the opt-out rule generating approximately 80% of the benefits achieved under a priority rule program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Hofstra University, 200 E Barnard Hall, Hempstead, NY 11549, United States. Electronic address: danyang.li@hofstra.edu.
authors.forename: Danyang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zackary
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hawley
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schnier
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011634:Public Health; D011640:Public Policy; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: C91; Government policy; Health; I10; I18; Laboratory experiment; Organ donation; Public health