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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Published in:	Kyklos Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 529 - 552
Main Authors:	Costa‐Font, Joan, Jofre‐Bonet, Mireia, Yen, Steven T.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2013
Subjects:	Altruism Directed blood donations Labor incentives Wages-in-kind Monetary incentives Incentive awards
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