We asked people why they don't donate their eggs or sperm. Their responses could help us attract more donors

By Karin Hammarberg, Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Benno Torgler, Professor, Business School, Queensland University of Technology
Ho Fai Chan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
Stephen Whyte, Deputy Director, Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology, Queensland University of Technology

We asked 1,000 people why they hadn’t donated their eggs or sperm, and their responses tended to fall in four categories.

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