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 …