Penny for your pint: The tricky art of buying kindness

Do material incentives influence blood donations? A commonly held view is that people donate their blood out of a pro-social motivation. But not everyone is willing to offer their blood for nothing. Material incentives might persuade some to step forward, yet they could very well alienate those who...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.ksmu-11022018-07-06T02:50:42Z Penny for your pint: The tricky art of buying kindness Knowledge@SMU Do material incentives influence blood donations? A commonly held view is that people donate their blood out of a pro-social motivation. But not everyone is willing to offer their blood for nothing. Material incentives might persuade some to step forward, yet they could very well alienate those who believe that such acts must not be motivated by selfish gains. Indeed, blood banks thread a fine line between motivating the ‘selfish’ and pandering to the ‘selfless’. Economist Alois Stutzer shares the results of a field experiment involving more than 10,000 potential blood donors with Singapore Management University. 2009-07-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/103 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1102&context=ksmu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Knowledge@SMU eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Economics Health Economics Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Penny for your pint: The tricky art of buying kindness
description Do material incentives influence blood donations? A commonly held view is that people donate their blood out of a pro-social motivation. But not everyone is willing to offer their blood for nothing. Material incentives might persuade some to step forward, yet they could very well alienate those who believe that such acts must not be motivated by selfish gains. Indeed, blood banks thread a fine line between motivating the ‘selfish’ and pandering to the ‘selfless’. Economist Alois Stutzer shares the results of a field experiment involving more than 10,000 potential blood donors with Singapore Management University.
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title Penny for your pint: The tricky art of buying kindness
title_short Penny for your pint: The tricky art of buying kindness
title_full Penny for your pint: The tricky art of buying kindness
title_fullStr Penny for your pint: The tricky art of buying kindness
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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