Arbeitspapier
Doing good or doing well? Image motivation and monetary incentives in behaving prosocially
This paper examines image motivationthe desire to be liked and well-regarded by others as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image motivation. By definition, image depends on one's behavior being visible to other people. Using this unique property we show that image is indeed an important part of the motivation to behave prosocially. Moreover, we show that extrinsic incentives interact with image motivation and are therefore less effective in public than in private. Together, these results imply that image motivation is crowded out by monetary incentives; this means that monetary incentives are more likely to be counterproductive for public prosocial activities than for private ones.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Papers ; No. 07-9
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Design of Experiments: General
Public Goods
- Subject
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Soziales Verhalten
Wohltätigkeit
Motivation
Ökonomischer Anreiz
Test
Theorie
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ariely, Dan
Bracha, Anat
Meier, Stephan
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- (where)
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Boston, MA
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ariely, Dan
- Bracha, Anat
- Meier, Stephan
- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Time of origin
- 2007
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