Do all material incentives for pro-social activities backfire? The response to cash and non-cash incentives for blood donations

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 738-748

  Lacetera, Nicola ^a   Macis, Mario ^b,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c IZA ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Altruism; Motivation and emotion; Public health

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955050530     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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