of OLS and IV estimates also indicates negative selection into volunteering for both genders. In a model of optimal … volunteering, negative selection implies that a reduction in the cost of volunteering will lead to an expanded and higher …

This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer … volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient …

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to … adverse selection mechanism which is consistent with the negative returns to volunteering found in reduced-form wage … of future consumption. The structural estimates also imply that the economic returns to volunteering are relatively more …

Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the … its infrastructure of volunteering. People who accidentally lost their opportunities for volunteering are compared to …

participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being substantially lower than for native born citizens and questions have …. We use two unique sets of data to conduct our research. The 2006 Electoral Participation Survey contains information on … individual electoral participation in national, county and municipal elections. We match this information to registry data from …