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 …

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 …

A theory that the economic benefits of volunteering are contingent on social class (as defined by similarities in … between 1996 and 2008 and fixed-effects models. Volunteering has a positive effect on earnings, but it is confined to people …

)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 …