Does generosity beget generosity? The relationships between transfer receipt and formal and informal volunteering

Charlene Kalenkoski

Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, vol. 12, issue 3, 547-563

Abstract: This paper examines whether receipt of public or private assistance is associated with recipients’ own generosity in the form of formal and informal volunteering. Using matched data from the 2007–2011 American Time Use Survey and the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey, this paper finds that receipt of private assistance from friends and relatives is negatively associated with the time women spend caring for non-household adults and the time men spend caring for non-household children. Receipt of public assistance is found to be negatively associated with men’s care of non-household adults. No associations are found between either type of assistance and time spent volunteering for a formal organization. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Generosity; Transfers; Welfare; Time-use; Child care; Adult care; Volunteering; D1; I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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