Optimal organ allocation policy under blood-type barriers with the donor-priority rule

Artikel

Shortages in organs for transplantation have resulted in a renewed interest in designing incentive policies to promote organ supply. The donor-priority rule, which grants priority for transplantation based on deceased organ donor registration status, has proven to be effective in both theory and practice. This study investigates the implications of the donor-priority rule for optimal deceased organ allocation policy design under a general formulation of blood-type barriers. We find that for any blood typing and organ matching technology, reserving type X organs for only type X patients maximizes the aggregate donation rate under regular distributions, which also ensures equity in organ sharing. Moreover, this is the unique optimal allocation policy if and only if the directed compatibility graph that corresponds to a given organ matching technology is acyclic.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 17 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 331-369 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Market Design ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation ; Publicly Provided Private Goods ; Analysis of Health Care Markets
• Thema: Market design ; organ donation ; priority rule ; blood-type compatibility ; equity

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Kim, Jaehong ; Mengling Li
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The Econometric Society
• (wo): New Haven, CT
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.3982/TE3969
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/253508
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ