Incentives for prosocial activities

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Early studies often found that offering economic incentives for undertaking prosocial and intrinsically motivated activities can crowd out motivation to perform these activities. More recent work highlights nuanced and important features related to whether crowding out (or substitution) is likely to occur. In many cases, incentives succeed in encouraging more prosocial behavior and are also cost-effective. However, although the substitution of external incentives for intrinsic motivation may not be a concern in many contexts, the substitution of one prosocial activity for another or shifts in activities over time or location may warrant further attention.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2016 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; Market Design ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Organization of Production ; Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
• Subject: prosocial behavior ; incentives ; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation ; over-justification effects ; substitution effects ; research methodology

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lacetera, Nicola
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.238
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148463
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET