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标题：Not all Incentives Wash out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited
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作者：Joan Costa-Font ; Mireia Jofre-Bonet ; Steven T. Yen 等
期刊名称：CEP Discussion Paper
出版年度：2012
卷号：2012
语种：English
出版社：Centre for Economic Performance
摘要：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 blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may feel less inclined to donate if a reward is involved - in addition to having the effect of reducing blood quality. In this paper we examine how favouring different types of incentives are related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a large sample representative of the population of fifteen European countries in 2002 containing information on both donation and attitudes towards incentives. Our results show those who have donated are less likely to favour monetary rewards for blood donation but are more likely to favour non-monetary ones. This is consistent with the idea that while monetary rewards may crowd out blood donation, non-monetary rewards do not.
关键词：Altruism;blood donation;incentives;nudging;recursive system;warm glow