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Volunteering, subjective well-being and public policy
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posted on 2023-06-08, 14:09 authored by Martin Binder, Andreas FreytagWe apply matching estimators to the large-scale British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set to estimate the impact of volunteering on subjective well-being. We take into account personality traits that could jointly determine volunteering behaviour and subjective well-being. We find that the impact of regular volunteering on subjective well-being is positive and increasing over time if regular volunteering is sustained. In a quantile analysis, we find that this effect seems to be driven by reducing the unhappiness of the less happy quantiles of the well-being distribution for those who volunteer regularly. We test the robustness of our findings and discuss their relevance for public policy.
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Journal of Economic PsychologyISSN
0167-4870Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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1Volume
34Page range
97-119Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2012-12-10Usage metrics
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