Market Failure in Kidney Exchange

We thank Alex Garza, Sarah Taranto, and Jennifer Wainwright of the United Network for Organ Sharing; Jonathan Kopke and Michael Rees of the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation; Cathi Murphey and Adam Bingaman of Methodist Hospital at San Antonio; and Garet Hill of the National Kidney Registry for their expertise and access to data. We thank Glenn Ellison, Amy Finkelstein, Parag Pathak, Al Roth, Jean Tirole, Utku Ünver, Mike Whinston, and seminar participants for helpful discussions. Abigail Ostriker provided excellent research assistance. Azevedo acknowledges support from Wharton's Dean's Research Fund, and Agarwal and Ashlagi from the National Science Foundation (SES-1729090 and SES-1254768, respectively). The data reported here have been supplied by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) as the contractor for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). The interpretation and reporting of these data are the responsibility of the author(s) and in no way should be seen as an official policy of or interpretation by the OPTN, the U.S. Government, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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• June 28, 2018