Organ donation in the lab: Preferences and votes on the priority rule

Arbeitspapier

An allocation rule that prioritizes registered donors increases the willingness to register for organ donation, as laboratory experiments show. In public opinion, however, this priority rule faces repugnance. We explore the discrepancy by implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment, and we also elicit opinion poll-like views. We find that two-thirds of the participants voted for the priority rule in the experiment. When asked about real-world implementation, participants of the donation experiment were more likely to support the rule than non-participants. We further confirm previous research in that the priority rule increases donation rates. Beyond that, we find that medical school students donate more often than participants from other fields.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-3-86304-174-8
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 175

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: General ; Health: General ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
• Thema: organ donation ; laboratory experiment ; vote

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Herr, Annika ; Normann, Hans-Theo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
• (wo): Düsseldorf
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/107066
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ