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Do all material incentives for prosocial activities backfire? The response to cash and non-cash incentives for blood donations

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Experimental studies document that financial rewards discourage the performance of altruistic activities, because they destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled experiment, through a survey administered to 467 blood donors in an Italian town, and find that donors are not reluctant to receive compensation in general: A substantial share of respondents declared they would stop being donors if paid a small amount of cash, but we do not find such effects when a voucher of the same nominal value is offered instead. The aversion to direct cash payments is particularly marked among women and older respondents, while there are neither gender nor age differences in the response to the voucher. Implications for research and public policy are discussed.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4458

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Thema
Incentives
altruism
public good provision
pro-social behavior
public health
Blutspende
Altruismus
Ökonomischer Anreiz
Couponing
Soziales Verhalten
Test
Italien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lacetera, Nicola
Macis, Mario
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2009

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-200910141369
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Beteiligte

  • Lacetera, Nicola
  • Macis, Mario
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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