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 …

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 …

from the Netherlands on volunteering and sector of employment. We find support for most of our predictions. …