WAITING TIME AS A PRICE FOR DECEASED DONOR KIDNEYS* |
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| Authors: | DAVID H. HOWARD |
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| Affiliation: | Howard: Associate Professor, Departments of Health Policy and Management and Economics, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA. Phone 404‐727‐3907, Fax 404‐727‐9198, E‐mail david.howard@emory.edu |
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| Abstract: | Kidney transplant candidates can obtain organs immediately from living donors or wait for deceased donor organs. I hypothesize that as waiting time for deceased donor organs increases, more patients will seek living donors. I estimate the impact of the availability of deceased donor organs on the use of living donor transplantation. The model, which is identified using within‐region variation in the demand for and supply of kidneys, shows evidence of a substitution effect. A five unit increase in the supply of deceased donor kidneys will result in one fewer living donor transplant for a net increase of four transplants. (JEL I18, H44, D45) |
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