In this article, we calculate how many lives will be lost if the United States continues to prohibit the use of financial incentives to motivate organ donation. We do this to motivate policymakers to stop implementing alternative policy proposals that have little effect on the supply of organs...

Concerns with coercion and irrational decision-making underlie many of the arguments against compensated organ donation. Nonetheless, healthy adults are allowed, and even encouraged, to donate a kidney, without compensation, to patients in dire need of a functional organ. How does the...