Replication data for: What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Nikhil Agarwal; Itai Ashlagi; Eduardo Azevedo; Clayton Featherstone; Ömer Karaduman

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Project Citation:

Agarwal, Nikhil, Ashlagi, Itai, Azevedo, Eduardo, Featherstone, Clayton, and Karaduman, Ömer. Replication data for: What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114472V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D24 Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
      D64 Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
      D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
      I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets

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