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A field study of donor behaviour in the Iranian kidney market

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posted on 2024-10-21, 08:41 authored by Ali Moghaddasi-KelishomiAli Moghaddasi-Kelishomi, Daniel Sgroi

Iran has the world’s only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor behaviour in this unusual market. Participants have lower risk tolerance and higher patience levels than the Iranian average but display no difference in rationality from population averages and there is evidence of altruism among participants. We provide an examination of decision-making in extreme situations by individuals in this market, typically at the very bottom of the income distribution, and shed light on the sort of people likely to participate if other nations were to operate such markets.

Funding

ESRC CAGE Centre: grant RES-626-28-0001

History

School

  • Loughborough Business School

Published in

European Economic Review

Publisher

Elsevier B.V.

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© The authors

Publisher statement

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Acceptance date

2024-10-12

Publication date

2024-10-18

Copyright date

2024

ISSN

0014-2921

eISSN

1873-572X

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi. Deposit date: 16 October 2024

Article number

104887

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