Why volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, image, and incentives

By Jeffrey P. Carpenter, C. Myers. 2010

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “1197Attitudes to Income Inequality It is a small step from monetary donations to others to volunteering in general, and Carpenter and Myers (2010) showed that the two are indeed correlated.”
The external validity of giving in the dictator game (2012, background): “Hence, Carpenter and Meyers (2010) show that volunteer firefighters give more in a dictator game compared with their non-volunteer colleagues.”
Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter? (2016, methodology): “To measure the intensity of our respondent’s political preferences, we ran a version of the dictator game similar to Carpenter and Myers (2010). Respondents were given an endowment of $100 that they could split with the campaign of a major party candidate.”
The influence of volunteer motivation on satisfaction, attitudes, and support for a mega-event (2014, background): “: +82 10 8964 0029. for mega-events are motivated by the opportunity to socialize, obtain material rewards, enhance the local community status, connect with personal hobbies and interests, and express altruism (Carpenter and Myers, 2010; Elstad, 2003; Hoffman, 1981; Warner et al., 2011).”
Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts School Misconduct (2018, neutral): “Cohn et al. (2015b) conducted a coin tossing experiment with inmates from a maximum-security prison. They found a positive correlation between claimed earnings from the coin tosses and misconduct in prison (e.g., illegal drug possession or aggression against guards and other inmates). However, the l”