Eric Crampton • Jul 12, 2015 •
I chatted yesterday with Sean Plunkett at RadioLive about compensation for live organ donors. My former student Liz Prasad showed that paying donors would save lives, improve quality of life among transplant recipients, and save the public health syste... Read More
Eric Crampton • Jun 17, 2015 •
New Zealand's organ donor service doesn't seem to like Israel's priority system. I was on with Paul Henry this morning talking about organ donation rates and pointed to the Israeli system as something that New Zealand should consider.ODNZ put out a press release making much of single-year changes in deceased donor rates from 2013 to 2014 in Israel and … Read More
Eric Crampton • Aug 18, 2014 •
Supply curves slope up, even for blood. Sydney's Robert Slonim will be speaking at Canterbury on the use of economic incentives to improve supplies of blood. Slonim's work on encouraging blood donation through use of compensation has featured rec... Read More
Eric Crampton • Apr 14, 2014 •
Free riding kills voluntary contributions in public good games. When individuals see that free-riders are able to do well, and where there's no way of excluding those free-riders from the benefits of contibutions, or of punishing them, they lower their likelihood of contributing.And so organ donation rates are pretty low. Donors provide a public good: they increase everyone else's chance … Read More
Eric Crampton • Jan 21, 2014 •
Whenever I watch Finn's quest to implement Pareto-improving moves despite the incompatibility of others' wants and the downright misanthropy of some actors, I, like you, can't help but think of Al Roth.Economists know that we could save lives if we all... Read More
Eric Crampton • Jan 28, 2013 •
Today's afternoon news roundup. Item the first: NZ's organ donor rate remains low; the kidney waiting list in particular remains long. Andy Tookey again suggests compensating cadaveric organ donors with subsidised funerals to encourage donation. I agr... Read More
Paul Walker • Jan 20, 2013 •
Recent Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth gives a brief summary of work on "Kidney Exchanges" in the NBER Reporter: Number 4, 2012. More than 90,000 patients are on the U.S. waiting list for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor, and only 11,000 or so ... Read More
Eric Crampton • Oct 18, 2012 •
I love the contrast between Steve Landsburg and Virginia Postrel on the Roth Nobel. They're both completely right. Says Landsburg: So Alvin Roth wins the Nobel Prize for, among other things, figuring out the best way to allocate kidneys subject to t... Read More