This paper explores individual motives for volunteering: The analysis is based on the interpretation of volunteering as … present an econometric framework taking into account self selection into volunteering and simultaneity between the … volunteering decision and the determination of income in order to test these two models and to identify the underlying motives. We …

Is the activity of volunteering something that benefits the volunteer as well as the recipient of the volunteer …) data set to estimate the causal impact of volunteering on happiness. We take into account personality traits that could … jointly determine volunteering behaviour and happiness. We find that the causal impact of volunteering on happiness is …

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 …

individuals are uncertain about their cost of provision, but can find out about this cost ahead of the volunteering game, a … of the volunteering game. …

our paper we used volunteering as the proxy for direct social commitment. We show that this motive is important in case of … for employees working in the health and social care. We didn't restrict our analysis of volunteering and demand for … of volunteering. Higher income, higher education, higher number of children and the larger settlement size decrease the …