Sauer, Robert M. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2015
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. Estimates of a DCDP … volunteering are more important than the non-economic returns in increasing lifetime utility. The model also reveals an adverse … selection mechanism into volunteering that helps explain why reduced-form regressions of the returns to working for free will …