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Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-Social Behavior

Lacetera, Nicola - 2009

experiment corroborates these findings and confirms that donors are motivated by the economic value of the items offered. We also …

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Motivating Altruism : A Field Study

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2021

This paper analyzes the effects of a legislative provision that grants a one-day paid leave of absence to blood donors who are employees in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset with the complete donation histories of the blood donors in an Italian town. The cross-sectional variation...

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Moral Nimby-Ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada

Lacetera, Nicola - 2018

merits of different procurement systems. We conducted a randomized survey experiment with a representative sample of 826 …

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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks

Lacetera, Nicola - 2015

's contacts. However, results from a field experiment where broadcasting of the initial pledges was randomized suggest that the … observational findings were likely due to homophily rather than genuine social contagion effects. The experiment also shows that … (30 out of 6.4 million users reached) were made. Finally, an online survey experiment showed that both the presence of an …

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Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2021

Using longitudinal data on the entire population of blood donors in an Italian town, we examine how donors respond to an award scheme which rewards them with "medals" when they reach certain donation quotas. Our results indicate that donors significantly increase the frequency of their donations...

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