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Kidney exchange solves incompatibility matching

Because a kidney must be physiologically compatible, a healthy person who loves someone needing a kidney often cannot donate to them—sometimes due to antibodies developed through childbirth against the partner's leukocyte antigens; kidney exchange solves this by having incompatible donor-patient pairs swap, so each donor gives to a compatible stranger and their loved one receives from another donor, with chains begun by non-directed donors multiplying the effect.

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Speaker

Alvin Roth

Evidence Quote

kidney exchange is the idea that maybe you're in that situation, you want to give to the mother of your children, and I'm in that situation, but we can't. But maybe I can give to your spouse and you can give to my spouse, and that's a kidney exchange.

Source

353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested MarketsSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:30:11 AM

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