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| Tekijä: | Mellström C. Johannesson M. |
| Otsikko: | Crowding out in blood donation: Was titmuss right? |
| Lehti: | Journal of the European Economic Association
2008 : JUN, VOL 6:4, p. 845-863 |
| Asiasana: | compensation |
| Vapaa asiasana: | monetary compensation blood donoring charity |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | In his seminal 1970 book, The Gift Relationship, Richard Titmuss claimed that monetary compensation for donating blood might crowd out the supply of blood donors. To test this claim we carried out a field experiment with three different treatments. In the first treatment subjects were given the opportunity to become blood donors without any compensation. In the second treatment subjects received a payment of SEK 50 (about $7) for becoming blood donors, and in the third treatment subjects could choose between a SEK 50 payment and donating SEK 50 to charity. The results vary markedly between the sexes. For men the supply of blood donors is not significantly different among the three experimental groups. For women there is a remarkable crowding-out effect. The supply of blood donors decreases by almost half when a monetary payment is introduced. There is also a significant effect of allowing individuals to donate the payment to charity, and this effect fully counteracts the crowding-out effect. |
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