title: Donor insemination: Israel as a representative case of a competitive market examining the possibility of policy reform.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To measure the private and social benefits of donor insemination (DI).
  
  
  METHODS
  An empirical model investigates the general public and DI clients' willingness to pay (WTP) for DI, and the willingness of potential donors to become altruistic or paid sperm donors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The general public and DI clients value DI and have a positive WTP for it, whereas willingness to donate, altruistically or for payment, is either low or very low.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The general public's and DI clients' WTP for DI is in average above actual cost, so the government should consider funding or subsidizing DI. The government should encourage altruistic gamete donation through information and education of all parties involved directly and indirectly in the process of donation whose ultimate goal is the birth of a child.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics & Business Administration, Ariel University, Israel.
authors.forename: Limor D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Gonen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000533:Altruism; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D005382:Financing, Personal; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007316:Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous / Q000191:economics*; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000191:economics; D008875:Middle Aged; D011639:Public Opinion; D013074:Sperm Banks / Q000191:economics; D013094:Spermatozoa; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014019:Tissue Donors; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000191:economics*
keywords: altruistic donation; assisted reproductive technology; contingent valuation; donor insemination; willingness to accept; willingness to pay