Artikel
Optimal organ allocation policy under blood-type barriers with the donor-priority rule
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 17 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 331-369 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society
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Wirtschaft
Market Design
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
Publicly Provided Private Goods
Analysis of Health Care Markets
- Subject
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Market design
organ donation
priority rule
blood-type compatibility
equity
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kim, Jaehong
Mengling Li
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Veröffentlichung
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The Econometric Society
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New Haven, CT
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2022
- DOI
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doi:10.3982/TE3969
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Artikel
Associated
- Kim, Jaehong
- Mengling Li
- The Econometric Society
Time of origin
- 2022
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