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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Spillovers of prosocial motivation: evidence from an intervention study on blood donors |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Journal of Health Economics |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0167-6296 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Page Range | 102244 |
| Date | 2020 |
| Abstract Text | 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. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102244 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:18965 |
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| Keywords | Voluntary blood donation, social interaction, bivariate probit |