Bruhin, Adrian and Goette, Lorenz and Haenni, Simon and Jiang, Lingqing (2020) Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors. Journal of Health Economics, 70. p. 102244. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102244
Bruhin, Adrian and Goette, Lorenz and Haenni, Simon and Jiang, Lingqing (2020) Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors. Journal of Health Economics, 70. p. 102244. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102244
Bruhin, Adrian and Goette, Lorenz and Haenni, Simon and Jiang, Lingqing (2020) Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors. Journal of Health Economics, 70. p. 102244. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102244
Abstract
Blood donations are increasingly important for medical procedures, while meeting demand is challenging. This paper studies the role of spillovers arising from social interactions in the context of voluntary blood donations. We analyze a large scale intervention among pairs of blood donors who live at the same street address. A quasi-random phone call provides the instrument for identifying the extent to which the propensity to donate spills over within these pairs. Spillovers transmit 41% to 46% of the behavioral impulse from one donor to the peer. This creates a significant social multiplier, ranging between 1.7 and 1.85. There is no evidence that these spillovers lead to intertemporal substitution. Taken together, our findings indicate that policy interventions have a substantially larger effect when targeted towards pairs instead of isolated individuals.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Voluntary Blood Donation, Social Interaction, Bivariate Probit |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2019 11:57 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 19:59 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/25558 |
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