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Global kidney chains

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  • Afshin Nikzad

    (Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089)

  • Mohammad Akbarpour

    (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305)

  • Michael A. Rees

    (Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation, Toledo, OH 43604; Department of Urology, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH 43614)

  • Alvin E. Roth

    (Department of Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305)

Abstract

Kidney failure is a worldwide scourge, made more lethal by the shortage of transplants. We propose a way to organize kidney exchange chains internationally between middle-income countries with financial barriers to transplantation and high-income countries with many hard to match patients and patient–donor pairs facing lengthy dialysis. The proposal involves chains of exchange that begin in the middle-income country and end in the high-income country. We also propose a way of financing such chains using savings to US health care payers.

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  • Afshin Nikzad & Mohammad Akbarpour & Michael A. Rees & Alvin E. Roth, 2021. "Global kidney chains," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118(36), pages 2106652118-, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nas:journl:v:118:y:2021:p:e2106652118
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    Cited by:

    1. Michel Callon & Alvin E. Roth, 2021. "The design and performation of markets: a discussion," AMS Review, Springer;Academy of Marketing Science, vol. 11(3), pages 219-239, December.

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