Font, Joan Costa; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for blood and/or organ donation has been recently revisited in the economic literature with limited consensus. As Titmuss (1970) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to...