Journal
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102331
Keywords
Discrete choice experiment; Mixed logit; Willingness to wait; Marginal kidney
Funding
- Progetto di Ateneo KIDNEY from the University of Padua
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We elicit time and risk preferences for kidney transplantation from the entire population of patients of the largest Italian transplant centre using a discrete choice experiment (DCE). We measure patients' willingness-to-wait (WTW) for receiving a kidney with one-year longer expected graft survival, or a low risk of complication. Using a mixed logit in WTW-space model, we find heterogeneity in patients' preferences. Our model allows WTW to vary with patients' age and duration of dialysis. The results suggest that WTW correlates with age and duration of dialysis, and that accounting for patients' preferences in the design of kidney allocation protocols could increase their welfare. The implication for transplant practice is that eliciting patients' preferences could help in the allocation of non-ideal kidneys. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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