【Empirical Seminar】Can Redrawing Boundaries Save Lives? Evidence from a Reform of the Kidney Allocation System
2025/12/18
研討會日期 : 2025-12-18
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Hannah Bae
地點 : Conference Room B110
主持人 : Professor Han Ng
演講者簡介 : Professor Hannah Bae received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego in 2024. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. Her research interests are Health Economics and Public Economics.
演講摘要 : Determining eligibility for government-regulated goods and services based on geographic boundaries faces tradeoffs between equity in access and administrative costs. A 2021 reform re-drew the geographic areas for matching donated kidneys to patients, shifting from arbitrary county-based boundaries to 250 nautical miles from the place of organ recovery. The reform lowered the kidney discard rate by 17% and lowered pre-transplant mortality. The additional kidneys transplanted were of lower quality, and access improved for higher-health risk and socio-economically marginalized candidates. The findings suggest the reform led to 807 additional transplants within one year, worth an additional $1.05 billion in lifetime value.
