Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited

Kyklos

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 529-551

  Costa Font, Joan ^a   Jofre Bonet, Mireia ^b   Yen, Steven T ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; INCENTIVE; PERCEPTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84885694582     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12034     Document Type: Article

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