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008 050111s2004 mau sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2005615534
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aAbadie, Alberto.
245 14 $aThe impact of presumed consent legislation on cadaveric organ donation$h[electronic resource] :$ba cross country study /$cAlberto Abadie, Sebastien Gay.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2004.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 10604
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 1/11/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"In the U.S., Great Britain, and in many other countries, the gap between the demand and the supply of human organs for transplantation is on the rise, despite the efforts of governments and health agencies to promote donor registration. In some countries of continental Europe, however, cadaveric organ procurement is based on the principle of presumed consent. Under presumed consent legislation, a deceased individual is classified as a potential donor in absence of explicit opposition to donation before death. This article analyzes the impact of presumed consent laws on donation rates. For this purpose, we construct a dataset on organ donation rates and potential factors affecting organ donation for 22 countries over a 10-year period. We find that while differences in other determinants of organ donation explain much of the variation in donation rates, after controlling for those determinants presumed consent legislation has a positive and sizeable effect on organ donation rates"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
650 0 $aDonation of organs, tissues, etc.$xLaw and legislation.
700 1 $aGay, Sebastien.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 10604.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/W10604