I love social media. Not only is it a great place to rant about politics and share cute baby photos, but it's also great for answering questions.
Yesterday, I asked the following to Twitter and Facebook:
"looking for reference for 'ppl will do more for free as volunteers than they will if you pay them a low wage' -- know where this came from?"
I got a lot responses, indicating that this is a pretty well-studied question with a lot of different results pointing to the general idea. Thought it might be useful to list them here for other interested folks.
For my purposes, the following seem to be the best:
Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini
(found by Kyle Murray and Eytan Adar)
Winter Mason and Duncan Watts
(found by Clemens Drews, Walter Lasecki)
Other interesting pointers:
Alfie Kohn
(found by Daniel Lowd)
Examples from Freakonomics, specifically the chapter about the Israeli daycare's experience with charging parents for late pickup of children causing more to be late.
(found by Dan Weld @dsweld, Matt Post)
Dan Ariely's work, for instance http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Papers/zero.pdf"How Small is Zero Price? The True Value of Free Products"
(found by Bertil Hatt @bertil_hatt)
