Donor's Deferral and Return Behavior: Partial Identification from a Regression Discontinuity Design with Manipulation

arXiv:1910.02170v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Volunteer labor can temporarily yield lower benefits to charities than its costs. In such instances, organizations may wish to defer volunteer donations to a later date. Exploiting a discontinuity in blood donations' eligibility criteria, we show that deferring donors reduces their future volunteerism. In our setting, medical staff manipulates donors' reported hemoglobin levels over a threshold to facilitate donation. Such manipulation invalidates standard regression discontinuity design. To circumvent this issue, we propose a procedure for …

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