Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right?

By C. Mellström, Magnus Johannesson. 2008

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Management of Technology and Innovation, Safety Research

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Payments for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism (2010, result): “This has been recently proven to be the case, particularly for women (Mellström and Johannesson, 2008), and other studies have shown that the use of financial incentivesmay sometimes contraveneor undermine civic duty in particular situations (Frey and Oberholzer-Gee, 1997; Bowles, 2008).”
No Margin, no Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for public service delivery (2014, background): “These findings contribute to a body of laboratory and field experiments on charitable giving (Ariely et al., 2009; Gneezy and Rustichini, 2000; Lacetera et al., 2011; Mellström and Johannesson, 2008) that test whether financial rewards crowd-out other sources of motivation.”
Disentangling the Sources of Pro-socially Motivated Effort: A Field Experiment (2010, background): “Mellström and Johannesson (2008) carry out a field experiment to examine whether offering blood donors a monetary compensation might crowd out their intrinsic motivation for giving and find this to be the case for women but not for men.”
Problematizing REDD+ as an experiment in payments for ecosystem services (2012, background): “Psychology and behavioral economics studies have shown that incentives can foster but also undermine intrinsic motivations for particular types of behavior, depending on the type of incentive, the characteristics of the social actors involved – including the social and cultural meanings they attribu”
Chapter 6 – The Personnel Economics of the Developing State (2017, background): “While a number of studies have documented such adverse effects in such activities as volunteer work (e.g., Gneezy and Rustichini, 2000) or blood donation (e.g., Mellstrom and Johannesson, 2008), it remains to be seen whether this is a first-order issue in the context of governments.”
Crowding out intrinsic motivation in the public sector (2011, background): “When studying the willingness to donate blood, Mellstrom and Johannesson (2008) find similar evidence in that in the absence of monetary incentives women donate more blood than men do.”