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Incentives when altruism is impure: the case of blood and living organ donations
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The decision to donate blood and living organs is considered voluntary and altruistic. However, the shortage of donors has opened an interesting debate in recent years, considering offering economic incentives to donors. ...
Attitudes towards blood and living organ donations
(2010)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We model the decision of whether or not to become a blood/living organ donor. The expected utility for becoming a donor is a function of the degree of altruism, the consumption of goods, the costs of donation, the very ...
Motivational capital and incentives in health care organizations
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimal incentive schemes in public health institutions when agents (doctors) are intrinsically motivated. We develop a principal-agent dynamic model with moral hazard in which agents’ intrinsic motivation ...
Identity, incentives and motivational capital in public organizations
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimality of contracts and incentives when the principal (public organization) can undertake investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organization can ...
A pilot inquiry on incentives and intrinsic motivation in health care: the motivational capital explained by doctors
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Where the contracts are incomplete, the resulting co-ordination problems may be attenuated if workers are intrinsically motivated to do the work. It is established by theoretical and empirical literature that workers within ...
Incentives beyond the money and motivational capital in health care organizations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores the conditions that characterize the optimality for a principal (health manager) to undertake investments to motivate agents (doctors). In the model, doctors are intrinsically motivated and can have ...
Comparing the psychometric properties of the EQ-5D-5L between mental and somatic chronic patients populations
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The validity and reliability of the EQ-5D-5L in comparison with the standard 3L has been tested through the analysis of psychometric properties making use of different samples of patients. However, it is likely that the ...
Incentives beyond the money: identity and motivational capital in public organizations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimality of contracts and incentives when the principal (public organisation) can undertake investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organisation can ...
Cost effectiveness analysis of the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence using slings
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Objective. To determine the cost-utility and cost-effectiveness of the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence using suburethral slings compared with therapeutic abstention. Study Design. An economic analysis was ...
Motivational capital and incentives in health care organisations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimal incentive schemes in public health institutions when agents (doctors) are intrinsically motivated. We develop a principal-agent dynamic model with moral hazard in which agents’ intrinsic motivation ...