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Do all material incentives for prosocial activities backfire? : the response to cash and non-cash incentives for blood donations

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2009

Experimental studies document that financial rewards discourage the performance of altruistic activities, because they destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled experiment, through a survey administered to 467 blood donors in an Italian town, and find that...

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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...

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Optimal incentives to give

Castillo, Marco; Petrie, Ragan - 2020

We examine optimal incentives for charitable giving with a large-scale field experiment involving 26 charities and over 112,000 unique individuals. The price of giving is varied by offering a fixed match if the donation meets a threshold amount (e.g. "give at least $25 and the charity receives a...

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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...

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Blood donations and incentives : evidence from a field experiment

Götte, Lorenz (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2008

blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood … 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 …

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Will there be blood? : incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2009

We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are consistent with blood donors responding to incentives in a "standard" way; offering donors economic...

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Do beliefs about peers matter for donation matching? : experiments in the field and laboratory

Gee, Laura K.; Schreck, Michael J. - 2017

about peers' donations affect one's own likelihood of donation. We test our theory using novel "threshold match" treatments …

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Selection into experiments : evidence from a population of students

Schulz, Jonathan F.; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra; … - 2019

This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited measures for risk, time, social preferences, confidence,...

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Nudging generosity : choice architecture and cognitive factors in charitable giving

Schulz, Jonathan F.; Thiemann, Petra; Thöni, Christian - 2017

In an experimental setup we investigate the effect of two different choice architectures on donation decisions. In the treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or select one from a list of five well-known charities; in the control group we do not provide a list. In...

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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

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