Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Elias, Julio J.; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario
• 署名单位: University of Toronto; University Toronto Mississauga; Johns Hopkins University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20180568
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 2855-2888
• 关键词: preferences; incentives; repugnance; happiness; IDENTITY; POLICY; morals; rates; live

摘要

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.