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Response rates to important surveys used in social science research have been falling precipitously over the last few decades, raising questions about the representativeness of the resulting data and the quality of evidence that comes from it. We examine how partisan preferences influence...
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The unsuccessful attempt to add a citizenship question to the Census has drawn attention to citizenship questions on other surveys. Simultaneously, researchers have noted a recent increase in Current Population Survey non-response. We combine these topics, studying the effect of the CPS...
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Measuring occupational mobility from the Current Population Survey using recall (retrospective) or linked panel responses (longitudinal) generates substantially different outcomes, both in levels and trends. Using a generalized method of moments technique, we estimate the actual level of...
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)fairness of 'mandatory volunteering'. This small exploratory study aims to reveal the perceptions of female participants in … mandatory volunteering programmes and to formulate directions for further research. We analyse how in Rotterdam the transition … were already volunteering. Surprisingly, they claim that the new approach better recognises their contribution to 'society …
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This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time and money, using data from Understanding Society, the most recent large scale UK household longitudinal survey. Due to the censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some...
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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 …
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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 …
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The public sector employs a large share of the labor force to execute important functions (e.g. regulation and public good provision) in an environment beset by severe agency problems. Attracting workers who are motivated to serve the public interest is important to mitigate these problems. We...
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. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job … volunteering premium is higher for females but invariant with respect to the number of engagements and the private versus public or …
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Volunteer supply is widespread, yet without a price inefficiencies occur due to suppliers' inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. For these contexts, we propose a market clearinghouse mechanism that improves efficiency if supply is altruistically provided. The mechanism, a...
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