Knowledge@SMU
Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
7-2009
Abstract
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.
Disciplines
Economics | Health Economics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Copyright Owner and Holder
Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Article ID
1223
Subject(s)
Health Economics
Citation
Knowledge@SMU.
Penny for your pint: The tricky art of buying kindness. (2009).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/103