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| Title: | | Blood donations and incentives: Evidence from a field experiment  |
| Authors: | | Goette, Lorenz Stutzer, Alois |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper series // Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 08-3 |
| 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 discrnable impact on usable blood donations. If anything, it creates a small negative selection effect in terms of donations that must be discarded. |
| JEL: | | C93 D64 H41 I18 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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