@article{ref1,
title="The Effect of Traffic Safety Laws and Obesity Rates on Living Organ Donations",
journal="Social Science Research Network electronic library",
year="2009",
author="Fernandez, Jose M. and Stohr, Lisa",
volume="2009",
number="online",
pages="ID 1464972-ID 1464972",
abstract="This paper uses variation in traffic safety laws and obesity rates to identify substitution patterns between living and cadaveric kidney donors. Using panel data from 1988-2008, we find that a 1% decrease in the supply of cadaveric donors per 100,000 increases the supply of living donors per 100,000 by .7%. With respect to traffic safety laws, a national adoption of partial helmet laws is estimated to decrease cadaveric donors by 6%, but leads to a 4.2% increase in the number of living donors, or a net effect of 1.8% decrease in the supply of kidney donations. The recent rise in obesity rates is estimated to increase living donor rates by roughly 18%. Lastly, we find evidence that increases in disposable income per capita is associated with an increase in the number of non-biological living donors within a state, but is not found to have an effect on biological donor rates.Keywords: organ donation, traffic fatalities, altruism<p />",
language="",
issn="1556-5068",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}