On time and money donations

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Ghinetti, Paolo; Turati, Gilberto

doi:10.1016/j.socec.2011.08.013

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“…The utility of the agent i is now written as: The model above shows that pecuniary contributions and volunteering can well be made jointly. This conforms to the stylized facts, whereby monetary donations and volunteering often go together (Cappellari et al, 2011). One of explanations is that motivated by "warm glow", donors need to control the use of their donations.…”

Section: Heterogeneity Of Incomes and Non-symmetric Equilibriumsupporting

confidence: 72%

The We and the I: The Logic of Voluntary Associations

Melnik

Zimmermann

2015

SSRN Journal

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Abstract:This paper sheds new light on the economic logic of voluntary associations and the relationship between individual contribution and collective action. The aims are twofold.Firstly, we seek to explain how "team reasoning" (Bacharach et al. 2006) can deeply change the functioning of voluntary associations (which are considered to produce a public good) when some or all of the individual members group together to make collective decisions about their involvement or contribution, rather than deciding separately. Secondly, we seek to better understand the effects of heterogeneity of resources on individual involvement, in terms of both the budget constraints of individual members and their capacity to contribute differentiated non-monetary contributions to the association, in relation to the diversity of their personal abilities and preferences about the characteristics of the good produced.To this end, we use a model of voluntary association collectively producing a public good, where monetary contributions (compulsory fees plus voluntary donations) is combined with volunteering. We analyze the conditions for an association to offer profitable conditions to its members and the consequences that can be drawn in terms of its existence and size. We show that, at equilibrium, the level of voluntary contributions is ceteris paribus higher when individuals make their decisions on the basis of team-reasoning rather than individually. We analyze the role played by heterogeneity of incomes in the formation of teams within associations.We then introduce the concept of subjective quality into the basic model. The originality of the model is that we assume the public good to be characterized by at least two main components: quantity and quality. The quantity is considered here as a purely public component, insofar as all the members benefit equally from it. However, the quality of the public good is assumed to be a mixed (public and private) component. The agents can enjoy part of it in the same way, but there may be certain characteristics of quality that are difficult or impossible to measure objectively. Quality is always somewhat subjective, to the extent that perfect correspondence with the preferences of heterogeneous agents is unlikely to occur. In our model, the agents can contribute money and/or time and effort. The latter, which we call volunteering, allows them to influence the quality of the good (or service) provided according to their own preferences.

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Section: Heterogeneity Of Incomes and Non-symmetric Equilibriumsupporting

confidence: 72%

The We and the I: The Logic of Voluntary Associations

Melnik

Zimmermann

2015

SSRN Journal

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“…The paper analysed the role of monetary rewards in crowding out intrinsic motivation in regular volunteer labour supply, using Frey and Götte's original framework. Although several empirical studies point out the importance of intrinsic motivation in unpaid labour supply (Cappellari and Turati 2004, Carpenter and Myers 2007, Cappellari et al 2007, Meier and Stutzer 2008, Bruno and Fiorillo 2009), the crowded‐out function of monetary rewards has received relatively little attention (Frey and Götte 1999, Carpenter and Myers 2007).…”

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“…However, few studies investigate the role of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in explaining the individual behaviour of volunteers. Recent empirical papers show the importance of intrinsic motivation in explaining unpaid labour supply (Cappellari and Turati 2004, Carpenter and Myers 2007, Cappellari et al 2007, Meier and Stutzer 2008, Bruno and Fiorillo 2009). However, there is not enough evidence of how volunteers would respond if their work were directly paid.…”

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Do Monetary Rewards Crowd Out the Intrinsic Motivation of Volunteers? Some Empirical Evidence for Italian Volunteers

Fiorillo

2011

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

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The paper studies the determinants of regular volunteering, taking its cue from the previous literature on extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. Its main contribution lies in the analysis of the role of monetary rewards in influencing intrinsic motivation. It uses frameworks that allow empirical hypotheses to be made about the effects of monetary rewards, intrinsic motivation and the combined term on volunteer labour supply. With an Italy-based survey, the paper shows, controlling for endogenous bias, that monetary payments as well as intrinsic motivation have roles in the real-life decision to supply volunteer work, but monetary rewards do not crowd out intrinsic motivation.

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“…While a large part of the gifting literature is concerned with reciprocity and pure gift giving, there is little or no consensus regarding the existence of pure gifts and altruism [25,110]. however, it has long been argued in political economy terms that gifting is a socially symbolic ritual, whereby gift givers signal their positive attitudes toward the recipients and their willingness to invest in future relationships (e.g., [24,84,87]).…”

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Gifting and Status in Virtual Worlds

Goode

Shailer

Wilson

et al. 2014

Journal of Management Information Systems

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Poland. his main research interests in social networks and information diffusion are backed with a practical background in the field of Web system development.abStract: While profitable business models elude many virtual worlds, sales of virtual products are a potentially lucrative source of revenue. One new addition to this strategy is virtual gifting, whereby users purchase virtual products to give to other users. The monetary value of such virtual good transactions is economically significant but no prior study has examined this phenomenon in a strictly virtual context. We apply theory from the economics literature to examine gifting behavior in a virtual world in which users' social status is reflected in observable social connections (friendships) and interactions (personal messages). We find strong evidence that gifting is associated with future enhancements of the gift giver's social status, consistent with a social status-seeking motivation, thus confirming a theorized behavior that is difficult to study in the real world. Our study has implications for system proprietors and managers because we show that gift giving increases system use continuance. We identify various antecedents of gift giving, which may assist a manager in identifying users who are most inclined to give gifts and enable the manager to signal the social exchange benefits to users as a way of improving their social connections.key WordS and phraSeS: gift economy, MMOg, status in virtual worlds, virtual gifts, virtual worlds.

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On time and money donations

Cited by 50 publications

References 39 publications

The We and the I: The Logic of Voluntary Associations

The We and the I: The Logic of Voluntary Associations

Do Monetary Rewards Crowd Out the Intrinsic Motivation of Volunteers? Some Empirical Evidence for Italian Volunteers

Gifting and Status in Virtual Worlds

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