Incentivizing organ donation with priority voucher : an experimental study
A well-designed organ allocation priority policy is crucial in moderating the organ supply shortage by incentivizing organ donation. We propose two modifications to the basic donor priority rule to further incentivize people to donate. Namely, a donor’s priority (in the term of a “priority voucher”)...
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| author | Wang, Song |
| author2 | Yohanes Eko Riyanto |
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| description | A well-designed organ allocation priority policy is crucial in moderating the organ supply shortage by incentivizing organ donation. We propose two modifications to the basic donor priority rule to further incentivize people to donate. Namely, a donor’s priority (in the term of a “priority voucher”) can be transferred to his offspring upon designation or can be passed over through inheritance. A laboratory experiment was developed to test for the effectiveness of the two types of priority vouchers with the basic donor priority rule being the benchmark. Results suggest that higher flexibility in voucher inheritance has a stronger crowding-out effect on donation rate. Consequently, there is no significant change in the aggregate welfare among all treatments. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/769102019-12-10T13:08:19Z Incentivizing organ donation with priority voucher : an experimental study Wang, Song Yohanes Eko Riyanto School of Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development A well-designed organ allocation priority policy is crucial in moderating the organ supply shortage by incentivizing organ donation. We propose two modifications to the basic donor priority rule to further incentivize people to donate. Namely, a donor’s priority (in the term of a “priority voucher”) can be transferred to his offspring upon designation or can be passed over through inheritance. A laboratory experiment was developed to test for the effectiveness of the two types of priority vouchers with the basic donor priority rule being the benchmark. Results suggest that higher flexibility in voucher inheritance has a stronger crowding-out effect on donation rate. Consequently, there is no significant change in the aggregate welfare among all treatments. Bachelor of Arts in Economics 2019-04-23T13:15:28Z 2019-04-23T13:15:28Z 2019 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76910 en 40 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development Wang, Song Incentivizing organ donation with priority voucher : an experimental study |
| title | Incentivizing organ donation with priority voucher : an experimental study |
| title_full | Incentivizing organ donation with priority voucher : an experimental study |
| title_fullStr | Incentivizing organ donation with priority voucher : an experimental study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Incentivizing organ donation with priority voucher : an experimental study |
| title_short | Incentivizing organ donation with priority voucher : an experimental study |
| title_sort | incentivizing organ donation with priority voucher an experimental study |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76910 |
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