Showing posts with label compensation for donors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compensation for donors. Show all posts
Monday, June 15, 2026

Horsemeat, Prostitution and Kidney Sales, interview by Peter Coy

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 Peter Coy interviewed me about Moral Economics for his substack Economics for Everyone. You can find the video and the transcript at this ...
Monday, June 1, 2026

The American Society of Transplantation prepares to consider a pilot study of financial incentives for living organ donation

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 As I prepare to speak later this month at the American Transplant Congress in Boston , I note that  the American Society of Transplantation...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Survey of economists, concerning Living-Donor Kidney Transplants

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Romesh Vaitilingam writes to draw my attention to the recent survey of economists, concerning Living-Donor Kidney Transplants , conducted ...
Friday, May 15, 2026

The Organ Donation Dilemma: Ethics, Economics, and Life-Saving Solutions: Debate at Hopkins, today

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Today's debate at Hopkins aims to focus on the proposed End Kidney Deaths Act.   The Organ Donation Dilemma: Ethics, Economics, and Life...
Friday, May 8, 2026

It’s time to carefully but urgently rethink payments to kidney donors. My op-ed in the Washington Post

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 This morning the Washington Post published my op-ed online (which is scheduled to appear in the print edition on Sunday). 800 words is hard...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Australia has more unpaid beekeepers than blood donors

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 If only there were some way for Australia to become self-sufficient in blood plasma, so it could stop having to buy it from the US... The F...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Funeral expenses for deceased organ donors in Taiwan

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 In Taiwan, the Ministry of Health and Welfare helps pay for the funerals of deceased organ donors.  From the Taiwan Organ Sharing Registry ...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

Alex Chan on deceased organ donation

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 The Harvard Gazette points to this interview with HBS professor Alex Chan : Designing Incentives That Matter—Even After Death: Interview wi...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Paid plasma donations are becoming more middle-class

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  The NYT has the story: The Middle-Class Suburbanites Who Sell Their Blood Plasma to Get By.  Across the United States, plasma centers are ...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

The States as the laboratory of democracy: helping organ donors

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News from the States: Pa. senators mull inheritance tax cut, deductions for organ donors  "While employers across the state are allowed...
Monday, March 16, 2026

International statistics on plasma donation show that it is quite safe

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 Peter Jaworski collects the statistics from Europe and North America: Plasma donation is safe And commercial plasma donation is not less s...