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Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration

Briscese, Guglielmo; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; … - 2020

(extensions longer than expected) relate with a lower willingness to comply. In a context where individual compliance has …

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Compliance with COVID-19 social-distancing measures in Italy : the role of expectations and duration

Briscese, Guglielmo; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; … - 2020

(extensions longer than expected) relate with a lower willingness to comply. In a context where individual compliance has …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198346

Expectations, reference points, and compliance with COVID-19 social distancing measures

Briscese, Guglielmo; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; … - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 103 (2023), pp. 1-21

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Rewarding volunteers : a field experiment

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 60 (2014) 5, pp. 1107-1129

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Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S.

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Stith, Sarah S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit...

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The effects of information, social and financial incentives on voluntary undirected blood donations: Evidence from a field experiment in Argentina

Iajya, Victor; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 214-223

financial incentives. We find that only higher-valued financial incentives generated more donations, increasing with the value … of the reward. These incentives did not create adverse selection in the safety or usability of the donated blood. We …

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Social image concerns and pro-social behavior

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2008

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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Motivating altruism: a field study

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2008

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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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 … incentives in a standard way; offering donors economic incentives significantly increases turnout and blood units collected, and … to a drive but are ineligible to donate when incentives are offered. Further evidence from a small-scale field experiment …

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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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