a paired kidney exchange will help find compatible donors amongst registered pairs of donorsrecipients such initiatives expand the pool of kidney donors by extending donor eligibility to a wider group of potential recipients within the chain for more information see for example roth et al for instance countries such as the united states provide a compensation to donors through a tax credit of up to usd for kidney donation to compensate for the unreimbursed costs and lost wage library of congress australia has a pilot project to cover the cost of taking a leave of up to six weeks from work to recover from organ donation until june th australian government department of health kidney transplants are higher in countries with presumed consent laws in which no explicit consent is needed to become potential donors and the change of law from explicit consent to presumed consent actually increased transplant rates in countries such as belgium roel and rahmel