AEA Papers and Proceedings
ISSN 2574-0768 (Print) | ISSN 2574-0776 (Online)
What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange?
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol. 108,
May 2018
(pp. 334–40)
Abstract
Kidney exchange platforms serve patients who need a kidney transplant and who have a willing, but incompatible, donor. These platforms match patients and donors to produce transplants. This paper documents operational details of the three largest platforms in the United States. It then uses the framework developed in Agarwal et al. (2017) to examine how practical details influence platform productivity. The results show that reducing frictions in accepting proposed matches, frequent matching, and encouraging altruistic donors are important ways in which a platform can increase its productivity.Citation
Agarwal, Nikhil, Itai Ashlagi, Eduardo Azevedo, Clayton Featherstone, and Ömer Karaduman. 2018. "What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange?" AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108: 334–40. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20181077Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D24 Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- D64 Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets