Via Al Roth’s Market Design Blog:
Just published in Transplant International (which is the journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation), is a paper describing the Iranian market for kidneys in the city of Mashad, and three commentaries on it.
Here’s the original paper:
Kidneys for Sale: Empirical Evidence From Iran by Tannaz Moeindarbari and Mehdi Feizi
And here are three short commentaries.
Kidneys for Sale? A Commentary on Moeindarbari’s and Feizi’s Study on the Iranian Model by Frederike Ambagtsheer1, Sean Columb, Meteb M. AlBugami, and Ninoslav Ivanovski
Kidneys for Sale: Are We There Yet? (Commentary on Kidneys for Sale: Empirical Evidence From Iran) by Kyle R. Jackson, Christine E. Haugen, and Dorry L. Segev
Criminal, Legal, and Ethical Kidney Donation and Transplantation: A Conceptual Framework to Enable Innovation by Alvin E. Roth, Ignazio R. Marino, Kimberly D. Krawiec and Michael A. Rees
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The commentary by Roth, Marino, Krawiec and Rees contrasts the legal Iranian market with the dangerous black markets that operate elsewhere, outside of regular medical institutions.
Here’s a recent long article that pulls together much of the discussion on compensation for donors and on sale of kidneys and transplant black markets:
Organ Trafficking, Can the illicit trade be stopped? By Sarah Glazer, CQ Researcher, June 24, 2022 – Volume 32, Issue 22
HT: Frank McCormick