Working for the “warm glow”: On the benefits and limits of prosocial incentives

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The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains (2019, background): “22Online or lab experiments have assessed the effect of charitable incentives on productivity in low-effort tasks (i.e., the intensive margin)—see Tonin and Vlassopoulos (2014), Imas (2014), and Charness et al. (2016).”
Social Incentives in Organizations (2018, background): “In a case study of profit sharing at Continental Airlines, Knez and Simester (2001) argue that the relevant in-group is the team of workers at the same airport, and that the introduction of a profit sharing scheme improved performance because workers internalized the effect on the pay of their immed”
Putting nudges in perspective (2017, background): “Economically equivalent rewards could take the form of cash payments, reductions in insurance premiums, points redeemable for gifts or charity contributions (Imas, 2014).”