Formal and informal volunteering and health across European countries

Damiano Fiorillo () and Nunzia Nappo

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Abstract: In this paper, we compare the correlation among formal and informal volunteering and self-perceived health across 13 European countries after controlling for socio-economic characteristics, housing features, neighborhood quality, size of municipality, social and cultural participation and regional dummies. We find that formal volunteering has a significantly positive association with self-perceived health in Finland and the Netherlands, significant negative relationship in Belgium, but none in the other countries. By contrast, informal volunteering has a significantly positive correlation with self-perceived health in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece and Portugal, and a significantly negative relationship in Italy. Our results point out that although formal and informal volunteering are correlated one with another they represents different aspects of volunteering whose correlations with self-perceived health depend, among others, on social and cultural characteristics of each country.

Keywords: self-perceived health; formal and informal volunteering; European countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D64 I10 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-11-25
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Working Paper: Formal and informal volunteering and health across European countries (2014)
Working Paper: Formal and informal volunteering and health across European countries (2014)
Working Paper: Formal and informal volunteering and health across European countries (2014)
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