Disentangling the Sources of Pro-socially Motivated Effort: A Field Experiment

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The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains (2019, background): “Anik et al. (2013) use a field study to estimate the impact of unconditional charitable bonuses on productivity, and Tonin and Vlassopoulos (2010) recruit university students for a field experiment using charitable incentives for a data entry task to measure pure and impure altruism.”
Working for the “warm glow”: On the benefits and limits of prosocial incentives (2014, background): “…since many employment contexts carry the expectation of direct compensation, it would be useful to compare the performance of individuals under a prosocial incentive scheme to when prosocial and self-benefiting incentives are mixed (Bracha and Brown, 2009; Tonin and Vlassopoulos, 2010, 2012).”
Social Incentives in Organizations (2018, background): “The evidence suggests that social incentives motivate workers, that is workers exert more effort when this benefits a mission they care about (Tonin and Vlassopoulos, 2010, 2015; DellaVigna and Pope, Forthcoming).”