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Economic Policy
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Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations
蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy
vol. 17,
no. 2, May 2025
(pp. 60–83)
Abstract
The United States has a severe shortage of organs for transplant. Recently鈥攊nspired by research based on hypothetical choices鈥攋urisdictions have tried to increase organ donor registrations by changing how the registration question is asked. We evaluate these changes with a novel "field-in-the-lab" experiment, in which subjects change their real organ donor status, and with new donor registration data collected from US states. A "yes/no" frame is not more effective than an "opt-in" frame, contradicting conclusions based on hypothetical choices, but other question wording can matter, and asking individuals to reconsider their donor status increases registrations.Citation
Kessler, Judd B., and Alvin E. Roth. 2025. "Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations." 蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy 17 (2): 60–83. DOI: 10.1257/pol.20220760Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- C91 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
- D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health