Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kessler, Judd B.; Roth, Alvin E.
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; Stanford University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20220760
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 60-83
• 关键词: donation; defaults; priority

摘要

The United States has a severe shortage of organs for transplant. Recently-inspired by research based on hypothetical choices-jurisdictions have tried to increase organ donor registrations by changing how the registration question is asked. We evaluate these changes with a novel ield-in-the-lab experiment, in which subjects change their real organ donor status, and with new donor registration data collected from US states. A yes/no frame is not more effective than an opt-in frame, contradicting conclusions based on hypothetical choices, but other question wording can matter, and asking individuals to reconsider their donor status increases registrations. (JEL C91, D12, D91, I11, I18)