Blood Donations and Incentives : Evidence from a Field Experiment

There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning three months and involving more than 10,000 previous donors...

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Year of publication:	2008-07-01
Authors:	Goette, Lorenz ; Stutzer, Alois
Other Persons:	Götte, Lorenz (contributor) ; Stutzer, Alois (contributor)
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Anreiz \| Prosoziales Verhalten \| Wirtschaftspsychologie \| psychology \| Verhaltensdeterminante \| Blutspende

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I. Introduction
II. The Empirical Setup
A. The Treatments
B. Descriptive Statistics
C. Behavioral Predictions
D. The Empirical Strategy
III. Results
A. The Overall Treatment Eects
B. Preferences for Blood Donations and the Response to the Experiment
C. Responses in other Subsamples
IV. Summary and Conclusions
References
V. Figures and Tables

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