Wildman, John; Hollingsworth, Bruce - In: Journal of Health Economics 28 (2009) 2, pp. 492-503
Approximately 10% of people have O-negative blood. Because it can be transfused into almost anyone, hospitals particularly value such blood. We use this fact, together with the assumption that blood types are exogenously assigned by nature, to design an empirical inquiry into altruism. We also...