Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited.

The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for blood giving has been recently revisited in the economic literature with limited consensus. As Titmuss () famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd...

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Publicado en:Kyklos Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 529 - 552
Autores principales: Costa‐Font, Joan, Jofre‐Bonet, Mireia, Yen, Steven T.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2013
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          Costa‐Font, Joan
          Jofre‐Bonet, Mireia
          Yen, Steven T.
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          European Institute & Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
          Department of Economics, City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
          Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, 37996–4518, USA
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        Altruism
        Directed blood donations
        Labor incentives
        Wages-in-kind
        Monetary incentives
        Incentive awards
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          Altruism
          Directed blood donations
          Labor incentives
          Wages-in-kind
          Monetary incentives
          Incentive awards
      ab: The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for blood giving has been recently revisited in the economic literature with limited consensus. As Titmuss () famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may feel less inclined to donate. In this paper we examine how favouring different types of incentives is related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a large sample representative of the population of fifteen European countries that contains information on both donation and attitudes towards incentives. Our results show that those who favour monetary rewards for blood donation are less likely to be donors and those who favour non-monetary rewards are more likely to have donated. This is consistent with the idea that while monetary rewards may crowd out blood donation, non-monetary rewards do not.
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