Volunteering, income and health

Jens Detollenaere, Sara Willems and Stijn Baert

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-11

Abstract: Separate literatures have related volunteering to health gains and income gains. We study the association between volunteering, income and health within one statistical framework. A state-of-the-art mediation analysis is conducted on data concerning the health, volunteering and sociodemographic characteristics of 42926 individuals within 29 European countries. We find that volunteering is positively associated to self-rated health. This association is partially mediated by household income.

Date: 2017
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