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| Title: | | Blood donations and incentives: evidence from a field experiment  |
| Authors: | | Götte, Lorenz Stutzer, Alois |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3580 |
| Abstract: | | 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. We examine two types of incentive: a lottery ticket and a free cholesterol test. Lottery tickets significantly increase donations, in particular among less motivated donors. The cholesterol test leads to no discernable impact on usable blood donations. If anything, it creates a small negative selection effect in terms of donations that must be discarded. |
| Subjects: | | Prosocial behavior blood donations material incentives : field experiment |
| JEL: | | C93 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008071153 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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