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What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange?

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  • Nikhil Agarwal
  • Itai Ashlagi
  • Eduardo Azevedo
  • Clayton Featherstone
  • Ömer Karaduman

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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.

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  • Nikhil Agarwal & Itai Ashlagi & Eduardo Azevedo & Clayton Featherstone & Ömer Karaduman, 2018. "What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange?," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 108, pages 334-340, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:108:y:2018:p:334-40
    Note: DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20181077
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    1. Mohammad Akbarpour & Julien Combe & Yinghua He & Victor Hiller & Robert Shimer & Olivier Tercieux, 2020. "Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money," Post-Print halshs-02973042, HAL.

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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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