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| Title: | | Active decisions and pro-social behavior  |
| Authors: | | Stutzer, Alois Goette, Lorenz Zehnder, Michael |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper series // Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 07-13 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent to or dissent from some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with the choice of whether to engage in a specific pro-social behavior contributes to the formation of issue-specific altruistic preferences, while simultaneously involving a commitment. The hypothesis is tested in a large-scale field experiment on blood donations. We find that this active-decision” intervention substantially increases the actual donation behavior of people who had not fully formed preferences beforehand. |
| JEL: | | C93 D64 I18 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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