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Opting out or opting in? How more people become organ donors

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Given the long waiting list for an organ transplantation, measures to increase the number of organ donors are subject of a political and social discourse in Germany. Whether or not in principle it can be assumed that a deceased person has given consent to organ removal can have a significant impact on the total number of organ donors in a country. In this article I show that organ donation rates are higher in countries in which a consent to organ removal does not have to be explicitly expressed.

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  • Selina Schulze Spüntrup, 2020. "Opting out or opting in? How more people become organ donors," ifo Dresden berichtet, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 27(04), pages 11-14, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifodre:v:27:y:2020:i:04:p:11-14
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