LIFE a GIFT

Organ donation: the gift of life.

"A gift for life. Considerations on organ donation".

Alessandro Nanni Costa, J. M. Simón i Castellvì, Antonio G. Spagnolo, Nunziata Comoretto, Jean Laffitte, Håkan Gäbel, Francis L. Delmonico, Ferdinand Muehlbacher, Walter Schaupp, Alexandra K. Glazier, Valter D. Garcia, Mario Abbud-Filho, Jose O. Medina-Pestana, Mariangela Gritta Grainer, Pier Paolo Donadio, Anna Guermani, Riccardo Bosco, Francesco Giordano, Blanca Martinez Lopez de Arroyabe, Ma...

It’s time to reward the gift of life

April is Donate Life Month and the number of patients waiting for kidneys has reached over 100000 in the United States. Only around 16% of those in the transplant wait list can hope to get a transplant this year. The rest continue to suffer on dialysis, and on average 12 or more die every day. If we count people who die on dialysis who could be on the list but aren’t, the number is closer to 25...

A Gift of Time

How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers’ overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks, we estimate the probability that an individual would have been affected by the reform. Reduced-form e...

A Gift for a Millennium

Established in 1995, the UNU/Institute of Advanced studies (UNU/IAS) is an advanced research and education institution with a flexible and multi-thematic programme orientation concerned with the interactions of social and natural systems. For the initial years, the UNU/IAS programme is directed at sustainable development issues. To this end, the UNU/IAS is currently active in the following rele...