The Price of Warm Glow 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. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to vary bet...

Sport and sport events provide a significant source of volunteering opportunities for a wide range of individuals and especially for young people. Organisers of major sport events often target the youth market to source volunteers due to the apparent high level of interest in sport by this group. Consequently, it is suggested that sport may act as a nursery for volunteering and therefore the ex...

Volunteerism has long been woven into the lives of Ukrainians. Since 2014, some parts Ukrainian society began to volunteer in military sphere. February 24, 2022, volunteering Ukraine received a new impetus. It is due possibility online that many Ukrainians became volunteers Russian-Ukrainian war because not all them were physically able get involved activities. This article defines concept and ...

Explanations of altruism remain fragmented across disciplinary lines and focus heavily on phenomena such as philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, volunteering outside workplace. Yet numerous professions, including law, claim a duty service that calls their members to volunteer. Using mixed methods approach draws thirty interviews survey 845 lawyers, authors develop an integrated framework account...

Why do people volunteer? What makes people give their time for others? Is volunteering really for those who are in need or volunteers themselves? While the idea of the gift and gift exchange is often used by practitioners of volunteering, it is also one of the research areas to which anthropology has largely contributed over decades. Gift exchange is a significant social phenomenon which reflec...

We make two contributions to the emerging empirical literature that identifies a negative relationship between neighbourhood heterogeneity by factors such as race, ethnicity, income etc., and individuals’ likelihood of contributing to public goods or trusting their neighbors. First, we show that studies that attempt to estimate the effect of a concave neighbourhood characteristic like heterogen...

We propose that voluntary work, characterized by social, physical and cognitive activity in later life is associated with fewer cognitive problems and lower dementia rates. We test these assumptions using 3-wave, self-reported, and registry data from the 2010, 2012, and 2014 Swedish National Prescribed Drug Register. We had three groups of seniors in our data: 1) no volunteering (N = 531), 2) d...

With an increasing demand and reliance on volunteers in a host of different sectors, the need for organisations to understand motivating factors behind volunteering, and how to retain volunteer services, is crucial. This paper examines the recruitment, retention and attrition among a group of volunteers participating in a long-term monitoring program for the critically endangered orange-bellied...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The study investigates whether productive activities by older adults reduce bodily inflammation, as indicated by C-reactive protein (CRP), a biomeasure associated with the risk of cardiovascular diseases. DESIGN AND METHODS The study uses a representative survey of adults aged 57-85 from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (N = 1,790). Linear regression mo...

and anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and discussion on earlier drafts of this manuscript. Thanks also are due our informants at Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) and at the University of 1 Geneva for volunteering their time.