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Main navigation Johns Hopkins Legacy Online programs Faculty Directory Experiential learning Career assets Alumni mentoring program Util Nav CTA CTA Breadcrumb Business In Government Initiative Featured Research Management Science (in-press); 2017 INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award The ongoing shortage of organs for transplantation has generated an expanding literature on the environment friendly and equitable allocation of the donated cadaveric organs. By contrast, organ donation has been little explored. In this paper, we develop a parsimonious mannequin of organ donation to research the social-welfare penalties of introducing the donor-precedence rule, which grants registered organ donors precedence in receiving organs, should they want transplants in the future. We mannequin a person's decision to hitch the donor registry, which entails a tradeoff between an abundance of provide, exclusivity of priority, and price of donating (e.g., psychological burden). Assuming heterogeneity in the cost of donating only, we find the introduction of the donor-precedence rule leads to improved social welfare. By incorporating heterogeneity within the chance of requiring an organ transplant and in organ high quality, we present that, in distinction to the literature, introducing the donor-priority rule can lower social welfare because of unbalanced incentives throughout various kinds of individuals. In view of the potentially undesirable social-welfare penalties, we suggest a freeze-interval remedy, underneath which an individual isn't entitled to the next queueing precedence until after having been on the organ-donor registry for a specified period of time. We show that echoing the idea of the second greatest (Lipsey and Lancaster 1956), this additional market friction helps rebalance the motivation construction, and along side the donor-precedence rule, can assure a rise in social welfare by boosting organ provide without compromising organ quality or inducing excessively excessive prices of donating. For info, contact Tinglong Dai one hundred International Drive