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Project Citation: 

Dickert-Conlin, Stacy, Elder, Todd, and Teltser, Keith. Replication data for: Allocating Scarce Organs: How a Change in Supply Affects Transplant Waiting Lists and Transplant Recipients. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116360V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Vast organ shortages motivated recent efforts to increase the supply of transplantable organs, but we know little about the demand side of the market. We test the implications of a model of organ demand using the universe of US transplant data from 1987 to 2013. Exploiting variation in supply induced by state-level motorcycle helmet laws, we demonstrate that each organ that becomes available from a deceased donor in a particular region induces five transplant candidates to join that region's transplant wait list, while crowding out living-donor transplants. Even with the corresponding demand increase, positive supply shocks increase post-transplant survival rates.

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JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D47 Market Design
      I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health


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