6th Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists

June 12 - 15, 2016

The Economics of Organ Donation and Transplantation

This session includes research on organ donation and transplantation. The first paper studies the effects of shocks to the local supply of organs arising from changes in motorcycle helmet laws on the behavior and outcomes of transplant candidates and their physicians; the second paper estimates preferences underlying attitudes toward compensation for organ donations; and the third paper shows results from a field-in-the-lab experiment studying the efficacy of active choice framing and multiple requests on actual organ donation registration decisions.