Rationality and the market for human blood

Stewart, Hamish

doi:10.1016/0167-2681(92)90087-r

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“…An explanation of why and how a concern for other people may survive evolutionary selection can be found in, e.g Bester and Güth (1998)Frank (1987),Bar-Gill and Fershtman (2001),Stewart (1992),. andGüth and Kliemt (2000) show that populations in which egoistic and altruistic types coexist may be evolutionary stable.…”

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The price of a price: on the crowding out and in of social norms

Janssen

Mendys-Kamphorst

2004

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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The price of a price: on the crowding out and in of social norms

Janssen

Mendys-Kamphorst

2004

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…The donation cycle represents a measurement tool needed to address this task. The donation cycle, in accurately discriminating donation behaviour, may also be of use to researchers interested in describing the relationship of donating behaviour to constructs in both social psychology and economics, such as altruism (Titmuss, 1971;Haltiwanger & Waldman, 1993;Stewart, 1992).…”

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Analysis of blood donor return behaviour using survival regression methods

James

Matthews

1996

Transfusion Medicine

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The acquisition of a sufficient and safe supply of blood products is required to support modern medical care; in most countries this has meant a reliance on voluntary, nonremunerated blood donors. Recent reported shortages in the United States and elsewhere have highlighted the need for a method to measure and evaluate blood donor return behaviour. This paper describes a framework within which standard time-to-outcome methods can be used to analyse blood donor return behaviour. Survival curves and relative risk estimates derived from a proportional hazards analysis of a large administrative dataset are reported. In addition to assessing the effect of sex, age and other key donor demographic factors on the probability of a subsequent donation attempt, the analysis reveals that the relative risks are time-dependent. This suggests that the likelihood of attempting a subsequent donation may also depend on the time since the index donation attempt. The implications for blood collection agencies and transfusion researchers of this new perspective on donor behaviour are discussed.

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“…In his influential book The Gift Relationship, Titmuss (1970) advanced the argument that payments for donations of human blood may cause altruism to decline and negatively affect people's willingness to donate blood. Stewart (1992) presented a theoretical model of blood supply a la Akerlof (1980) to illustrate Titmuss's argument. An argument analogous to Titmuss's appears in the field of social psychology.…”

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