Financial incentives for kidney donation: A comparative case study using synthetic controls

Bilgel, Fırat; Galle, Brian D.

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.06.007

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“…5 See also Chatterjee et al (2015). For a case study showing positive effects on live undirected kidney donations, see Bilgel and Galle (2015). 6 Recent evidence also shows that economic incentives enhance other forms of prosocial activities, such as proenvironment behavior, as well as other activities driven by strong intrinsic and other-regarding motives, such as civil service, teaching, and health-related jobs.…”

Section: Introduction: An Intellectual Journeymentioning

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Incentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts

Lacetera

2017

SSRN Journal

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Research shows that properly devised economic incentives increase the supply of blood without hampering its safety; similar effects may be expected also for other body parts such as bone marrow and organs. These positive effects alone, however, do not necessarily justify the introduction of payments for supplying body parts; these activities concern contested commodities or repugnant transactions, i.e. societies may want to prevent certain ways to regulate a transaction even if they increased supply, because of ethical concerns. When transactions concern contested commodities, therefore, societies often face trade-offs between the efficiencyenhancing effects of trades mediated by a monetary price, and the moral opposition to the provision of these payments. In this essay, I first describe and discuss the current debate on the role of moral repugnance in controversial markets, with a focus on markets for organs, tissues, blood and plasma. I then report on recent studies focused on understanding the trade-offs that individuals face when forming their opinions about how a society should organize certain transactions.

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Section: Introduction: An Intellectual Journeymentioning

confidence: 99%

Incentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts

Lacetera

2017

SSRN Journal

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“…Most of these policies did not include any incentives for donors, and only some came with modest tax incentives of around $600. By contrast, Bilgel and Galle () found that the 2004 resolution in New York to award a medal to living and deceased organ donors and the 2006 passage of a $10,000 tax deduction for donations jointly increased the number of living kidney donations from nonrelatives by 52%. Thus, our estimated increase of 25% in the number of deceased solid organ donors stemming from a nonmonetary posthumous award is well above the effect of policies with very low financial incentives and is approximately half the magnitude of policies that combine high financial incentives with an award.…”

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confidence: 96%

Incentivizing organ donation through a nonmonetary posthumous award

Bedendo

Siming

2019

Health Economics

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Since 2013, The Order of St John Award for Organ Donation has been offered to the families of deceased solid organ donors in the United Kingdom to honor the donors and inspire others to donate. We evaluate the effects of this award using a difference‐in‐differences approach that builds on the fact that solid organ donors are eligible for the award, whereas cornea‐only donors are not. We find that the introduction of the award led to an increase in the number of deceased solid organ donors.

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“…12 Examples of such applications include openness and trade liberalization policies (Nannicini and Billmeier, 2011;Billmeier and Nannicini, 2013;Ritzel and Kohler, 2017), impact of trade agreements (Hosny, 2012;Hannan, 2016Hannan, , 2017Aytug et al, 2017), impact of joining a currency union (Saia, 2017;Puzzello and Gomis-Porqueras, 2018), economic regimes/political stability (Grier and Maynard, 2016;Meyersson, 2017;Jales et al, 2018;Matta et al, forthcoming), natural disasters (Coffman and Noy, 2012;Cavallo et al, 2013;Mideksa, 2013; Barone and Mocetti, 2014;Mohan, 2017), terrorism, civil wars, crime, and political risks (Montalvo, 2011;Pinotti, 2015;Singhal and Nilakatan, 2016;Bilgel and Karahasan, 2017;Bove et al, 2017;Costalli et al, 2017;Bove and Elia, 2018), health economics (Bilgel and Galle, 2015;Krief et al, 2016), economic sanctions (Gharehgozli, 2017), migration (Powell et al, 2017), and natural resource discoveries (Smith, 2015).…”

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What has New Zealand gained from The FTA with China?: Two counterfactual analyses^†

Verevis¹,

Üngör

2020

Scottish J Political Eco

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New Zealand (NZ) was the first developed country to have signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with China. We investigate the effects of the 2008 NZ-China FTA on (i) exports from NZ to China, and (ii) real GDP per capita in NZ using the synthetic control method that focuses on estimating the counterfactual outcomes. We find that NZ exports to China were more than 200% higher in 2013 and 2014 than what they would have been if NZ had never signed the FTA with China. Even though the NZ export sector experienced gains from the 2008 FTA, this agreement did not have any observable impact on real GDP per capita of NZ.

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Financial incentives for kidney donation: A comparative case study using synthetic controls

Cited by 29 publications

References 24 publications

Incentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts

Incentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts

Incentivizing organ donation through a nonmonetary posthumous award

What has New Zealand gained from The FTA with China?: Two counterfactual analyses^†

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Financial incentives for kidney donation: A comparative case study using synthetic controls

Cited by 29 publications

References 24 publications

Incentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts

Incentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts

Incentivizing organ donation through a nonmonetary posthumous award

What has New Zealand gained from The FTA with China?: Two counterfactual analyses†

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What has New Zealand gained from The FTA with China?: Two counterfactual analyses^†