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Sign me up! A new model and field experiment on volunteering Erte Xiao Carnegie Mellon University Daniel Houser George Mason University
18 April, 2013
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Purpose
• Describe a new model and investigate using field experiments the ability of incentives to promote volunteering.
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Motivation
• General participation in volunteering is quite low. – 26.8% for the year ending in September 2011. – 46% of volunteers volunteered for less than 50 hrs
in 2011.
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Motivation
• Volunteering has many personal benefits and a great number of benefits to society.
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Motivation
How to promote volunteering?
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Motivation
• We can promote good habits, such as exercising, by providing monetary rewards to incentivize people to engage in the activity for a long period (Charness and Gneezy, 2009)
• Can monetary reward promote volunteerism in a similar way, by helping to form a volunteering habit? Maybe not…
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Motivation
• Reward may be ineffective in promoting volunteering habits. – Rewarded volunteering may not be volunteering? – Participation in volunteer activities is affected,
perhaps more than exercise, by constraints including time availability and availability of volunteer opportunities.
– Frequency of volunteer activity may be low.
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Motivation
• Volunteering frequency is substantially lower than exercise.
– 70% of adults exercised for more than 30 minutes per week (about 26 hours a year) in 2011
– 20% of adults volunteered more than 15 hrs in 2012
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Motivation
• Because volunteering is a relatively low-frequency activity – It may be difficult for people to comply with
incentives to volunteer – It may be difficult for incentives to generate
behavioral habits – It may be difficult to measure the immediate
behavioral impact of incentive interventions
• Alternative: Focus on impact on intrinsic interest
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Interest in Intrinsic Interest
• Measuring impact of interventions on intrinsic interest in volunteering is a natural and important • Developing pro-social attitudes highlighted by
Janoski et al (1998) as perhaps the most important determinant of long-term volunteer activity.
• Expression of interest is an important success metric used by private-sector groups working to improve giving behavior.
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Focus on Interest
Jon Behar and his group have developed and studied the impact of “Giving Games” on sign-up rates for volunteer-related activities.
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Can we use incentives to promote intrinsic interest in volunteering? Maybe so…
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Background
• When reward successfully motivates people to engage in activities for an extended period, it creates a habit (the long-term impact of the reward even after the incentive is withdrawn; Charness and Gneezy, 2009)
What if the reward fails to motivate people to engage in the activities repeatedly?
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Background
• Failure to comply with a reward incentive may decrease intrinsic interest in the rewarded task: – People may infer preferences (positive or negative)
from previous action. (DeJong, 1979; Benabou and Tirole, 2011; Ariely and Norton, 2007)
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Succeeding by Failing
Our goal is to develop a reward-based approach that creates positive interest in volunteering even when
people fail to comply with the rewarded activity.
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Towards a Model: Behavioral Approach to Attitude Change
Festinger and Carlsmith (1959)
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Consistency
• Consistency is the foundation of our approach to promoting positive attitudes towards pro-social activities – May be effective in environments where
compliance rates are low, in which case • habit formation is difficult • incentives are more likely to have detrimental
effect
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Proposed Compound Task Approach
A compound task: Target task + Complimentary task
Succeed Complimentary task only
I must like T (not for money)
Reinforce T
Regardless of compliance in the subsequent manipulation, people adopt a positive attitude toward the target activity.
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Intuition for Compound Task Approach
• T: Target activity • C: Complement activity • Perform compound task (T,C)
– Earn utility U(T,C) if compound task completed. – Only earn reward if both tasks completed
• Compound task performed if U(T,C)>A – A is the value of alternative outside activity
• Suppose compliance
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Inference from Non-Compliance
• Next, participants asked to do C alone – Earn utility w(C) if task completed.
• Participants perform this task if w(C)>A
– What inference can be drawn from compliance with the compound task but non-compliance with the complement task?
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Inference from Non-Compliance • Suppose U(T,C)=v(T)w(C).
– WLOG assume A=1, and v( ) >0, w( )>0.
• Compliance with compound task implies v(T)w(C)>1
• Noncompliance with C implies 0<w(C)<1
• Thus, those who complied with the compound task learn they prefer volunteering to the outside option: v(T)>1
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Inference from Non-Compliance • Alternatively, taking logs, U(T,C)=v(T)+w(C)>0
– value of outside option is now zero • Compliance with the compound task, and non-compliance
with the complement task, implies v(T)>-w(C)>0. Due to non-compliance with the complement task, one infers the target task has greater value than the outside option.
“Failsafe” : succeed to promote positive attitudes even when people fail to engage in the incentivized tasks.
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Proposed “Failsafe” Mechanism $ to a compound task (volunteering + writing).
$$ to the complimentary task (writing) – same difficulty level as compound task (difficulty assessed
using an incentivized survey).
Succeed
Fail
I must like volunteering!
Succeed
Repeated thoughts about the benefit of volunteering “Volunteering is good”
How to account for first task success?
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Experiment
• We test four reward mechanisms – One requires only one time compound task
(Volunteering + Writing): VW1 – Three require frequent activity following the one time
rewarded compound task. • Volunteering only (V) • Writing only (W) • Volunteering + Writing(VW)
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VW1 Treatment
• One time compound task: $25 for volunteering once & writing two messages about the benefit of volunteering in one week.
********* Next three reward treatments differ from VW1 in that we continue to incentivize some activities after the $25 week.
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W Treatment • Following the $25 week, participants were rewarded by $50 to
write about the benefit of volunteering three times a week in each of the following four weeks.
– Succeed more interested in volunteering – Fail I must like volunteering.
Failsafe: insures against the detrimental effect of incentives on attitudes toward volunteering.
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V Treatment • Following the $25 week, participants were rewarded by $50
for volunteering four times in four weeks. (We design this mechanism so that it is closely analogous to the C&G exercise task.)
– Succeed (as C&G) more interested in volunteering
– Fail in fact, I do not like volunteering.
This mechanism may have a detrimental effect on attitudes toward volunteering if success rate is low.
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VW Treatment • Following the $25 week, participants were rewarded by $50
for volunteering four times (in total) and writing two messages per week in four weeks.
– Succeed more interested in volunteering – Fail I do not really like volunteering and/or writing
This mechanism may have a detrimental effects on attitudes toward volunteering if the success rate is low.
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Baseline
• No reward for any volunteering or writing tasks.
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Hypotheses
• Compliance in the $50 activities result in positive effects on attitudes toward volunteering and habit formation. (Charness and Gneezy, 2009).
• Non-compliance in the $50 activities lead to detrimental effects on attitudes toward volunteering in V and VW.
• W promotes positive attitudes towards volunteering regardless of compliance.
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Experiment
• 264 participants all recruited the same day • On recruitment day: • Subjects completed a survey
– given an information sheet explaining benefits of volunteering
– provided with the volunteer opportunities at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• Subjects were offered $2 to complete an application to volunteer during the next 7 days.
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Experiment
• Volunteer at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Experiment
• Three volunteering choices – Adopt a shelf (local library) – Shipping and delivery – Street marketing (local business)
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Instructions for the writing task • Email us ([email protected]) three
messages during each of the following four seven-day cycles. For example, if today is Tuesday, you need to email three messages by Tuesday of each of the following four weeks. In each message, you will write about: 1) why you think volunteering is important for society; and 2) how volunteers can benefit from volunteer activity. Your messages can be based on either your own experience or others’ experiences. There is no length requirement for the messages, but please note (i) the three messages must be sent to the above email address on different days and (ii) the messages must include different content. Only the experimenter will see your messages.
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Time line
• Pick up $25 & fill out a survey • Randomly assigned to one of the 4
Incentive treatments 9/11 9/18
• Survey • Benefit of volunteering • Information of the CLP
volunteer opportunities. • $25 reward for
volunteer once (Incentive treatments)
10/16
• Pick up $50 and fill out a survey
10/24
• CPL reminder of volunteer opportunities
11/2-8
• Email signup survey
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Sign Ups Measure Intrinsic Interest • Revealed preference measure: At the end of the survey :
Currently, there are various volunteer opportunities at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. The library provides an important community resource, and also counts on the support of many volunteers in helping to meet its goals. If you are interested in receiving short email updates offering information about available volunteer activities with the Library, please check "Yes" option below. – Yes, please email me the information – No, I'm not interesting in knowing those opportunities
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Results
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Volunteer Rate
• The volunteer rate is higher in all four incentive treatments compared to the baseline – Overall compliance rate is low. – 46% of participants earn $25 by volunteering at
least once. – Only 14% of participants earn $50.
• Compliance rate (earn $50) is highest in V (24%) and lowest in VW (8%) and W (7%) (Z-test, p<0.05)
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Descriptive Data
# of subjects
Register for first week volunteer
Number volunteered (earn $25)
Number complied (earn $50)
Baseline 31 9 1
VW1 58 41 26
$25+$50
V 58 45 27 14
VW 59 43 28 5 W 58 43 26 4
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Volunteering Hours by Treatment
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Week ($25) Week ($50)
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Sign Up Rate
• Among those who are closed to the idea of volunteering, there is no treatment difference in email sign up rate.
• Among those who completed the compound task for $25, email sign up rate is highest in W treatment and lowest in VW treatment.
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VW VW1 V W 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00
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Sign Up Rate by Treatment
Failed in compound task ($25 week)
Succeeded in compound task ($25 week)
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Note: The number on each bar is the # of obs. *In Baseline, the only one who volunteered signed up for the emails.
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Sign Up Rate
• For those who complete the compound task for $25 but failed the second stage task for $50, the sign up rate is highest in W treatment.
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Sign Up Rate by Treatment (include only those who complete the compound task for $25)
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Note: The number on each bar is the # of obs. In VW1 we include all those who complete the first stage compound task.
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Overall Sign Up Rate
• Signup rate is lowest in the VW treatment – majority fail to earn the reward – majority indicate no further interest in volunteering
• Signup rate is lowest is highest in the W treatment – majority fail to earn the reward – majority indicate positive interest in future
volunteering (only treatment where this is true)
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Overall Sign Up Rate by Treatment
Number in the parenthesis is the rate of failure to earn the reward of $50 among those who filled out the survey.
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Additional Fun Results
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Gender Difference
• The treatment difference is most salient among male who are also less likely to sign up than female.
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Sign Up Rate by Treatment and Gender
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Survey Evidence of Pro-social Activity
“How often during the last 4 weeks have you donated money to charities or community service organizations?” – Not At All (1) – Once (2) – 2 or 3 times (3) – 4 or 5 times (4) – More than 5 times (5)
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Pro-social Activity by Treatment
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Conclusion
• Using incentives to promote volunteering is difficult for a number of reasons, perhaps especially low rates of compliance with rewarded activities.
• We provide experimental evidence that a two-stage incentivized compound task mechanism can promote a positive attitude toward pro-social activities even when the compliance with rewarded activities is low.
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Thanks to Many Who Helped
• Carnegie Library Staff – Karen Meharra – Kaylee Petsch
• David Haggman (PhD student) • Shuwen Li (PhD student)
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Thank You!