My job market paper, "Fostering Institutional Trust to Encourage Organ Donation", joint with Maleke Fourati (Mediterranean School of Business and ERF), evaluates the impacts of an expert-led informational intervention which we developed in collaboration with the Tunisian Center for the Promotion of Organ Transplantation (CNPTO). The paper is pre-registered at the AEA Social Science Registry and conditionally accepted via pre-results review at the Journal of Development Economics.
For a short policy summary, see this policy brief: "Fostering Trust to Save Lives: Evidence from Organ Donation in Tunisia." World Bank Development Impact Blog. 14 November 2025.
To learn more about organ donation and transplantation globally, visit the website of the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation. For country-specific information and instructions on how to register as a donor in your country, you can consult an exhaustive list of national organ donation institutions here.
Acknowledgments:
We would like to express our gratitude to the CNPTO and especially to Dr. Boutheina Zannad, Dr. Inès Jaafar, Khadouja Ben Nakissa and Mejda Chaouachi, without whom this study would not have been possible. We also thank Leila Triki, Sana Mami, Imen Bouhestine, Lamia Ben Fdhila, Emnaa Chahed, and the faculty of the South Mediterranean University. We are grateful for funding by the Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics at the University of Chicago [Implementation & Policy Grant, July 2024 and May 2025] and the European University Institute.