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Trial End Date December 07, 2017 December 12, 2017
Last Published February 20, 2018 10:29 AM August 30, 2024 09:20 AM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date December 12, 2017
Data Collection Complete Yes
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 2666 survey respondents
Public Data URL http://doi.org/10.3886/E116212V1
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? No
Program Files Yes
Program Files URL http://doi.org/10.3886/E116212V1
Data Collection Completion Date December 12, 2017
Is data available for public use? Yes
Intervention End Date December 07, 2017 December 12, 2017
Keyword(s) Health Health
Building on Existing Work No
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Papers

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Paper Abstract We conducted a randomized survey with 2,666 US residents to study preferences for legalizing payments to kidney donors. We found strong polarization, with many participants supporting or opposing payments regardless of potential transplant gains. However, about 18 percent of respondents would switch to favoring payments for sufficiently large increases in transplants. Preferences for compensation have strong moral foundations; participants especially reject direct payments by patients, which they find would violate principles of fairness. We corroborate the interpretation of our findings with a choice experiment of a costly decision to donate money to a foundation that supports donor compensation.
Paper Citation Elías, Julio J., Nicola Lacetera, and Mario Macis. 2019. "Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment." American Economic Review, 109 (8): 2855–88.
Paper URL https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180568
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