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AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages 828-851Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.3.828
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- National Science Foundation [SES-0616689] Funding Source: Medline
- National Science Founcation [SES-0616470] Funding Source: Medline
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Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a double coincidence of wants. Developing infrastructure to perform three-way as well as two-way exchanges will have a substantial effect on the number of transplants that can be arranged. Larger than three-way exchanges have less impact on efficiency. In a general model of type-compatible exchanges, the size of the largest exchanges required to achieve efficiency equals the number of types.
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