census rounds to test whether volunteering rates are lowered by neighborhood heterogeneity by race/ethnicity, birthplace …An empirical literature has found that neighborhood heterogeneity lowers people's likelihood of contributing to public …, income or language. We find boundaries matter, with only ethnic/racial heterogeneity robustly associated with lower …

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 …

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. …

)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 …

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 …