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Among the hypotheses examined in this paper, special emphasis has been given to hypothesis 4, which evaluates whether a nation benefits more from the introduction of the priority rule compared to a change in the default system of organ donation to presumed consent, when the baseline system is explicit consent without the priority rule. The findings suggest that the outcome of such an analysis, in an economy like the United States, will critically depend on how one chooses to quantify the monetary value of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) gained from organ transplantation and the transaction cost of donor registration. The paper highlights that in the year 2016, the US would have benefited relatively more, in terms of donor registrations for deceased kidney donation, from a change in the default system of organ donation to presumed consent rather than an introduction of the priority rule. This result holds as long as the monetary value of a QALY gained from Deceased Kidney Transplantation is less than $2,068,717.04, at 2016-level prices. The robustness of this result has been confirmed through Monte Carlo Uncertainty Analysis, with statistical significance at the 99\u202f% level.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1515\/fhep-2024-0041","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,23]],"date-time":"2025-12-23T10:55:37Z","timestamp":1766487337000},"page":"43-73","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["How Default Choice and Priority Rule Affects Organ Donation: An Examination of Hypotheses"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Diptanu","family":"Das","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Economics , 30167 Jadavpur University , Kolkata , India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Siddhartha","family":"Mitra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Economics , 30167 Jadavpur University , Kolkata , India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025122913564121633_j_fhep-2024-0041_ref_003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Alkhawari, F. 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