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The impact of volunteering on cognition and cognitive decline in older diverse cohorts: KHANDLE and STAR. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Lor Y, Colbeth H, Chanti-Ketterl M, Hokett E, Fletcher E, Zlatar ZZ, Chen NX, Tandel N, Gilsanz P, Mayeda ER, Whitmer RA.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Employer Support for Employee Voluntarism [PDF]

This study uses the microdata from the 1997 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (NSGVP) and from a comparable survey for 1987 to answer a number of key questions pertaining to the role of employers in support of employee voluntarism:
Kapsalis, Constantine
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Factors influencing older adults' participation in community volunteering service in China: a logistic regression and fsQCA perspective. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Xu C, Ye J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Public Spending and Volunteering: "The Big Society", Crowding Out, and Volunteering Capital. [PDF]

The current British Government's "Big Society" plan is based on the idea that granting more freedom to local communities and volunteers will compensate for a withdrawal of public agencies and spending.
Bartels, Koen, Cozzi, Guido, Mantovan, Noemi   +2 more
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Volunteering With Health Volunteers Overseas [PDF]

Archives of Dermatology, 2009
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How time exposure, role engagement and task essence ("3E") of volunteering interact to associate with healthy aging: a cross-sectional mixed-method study in Hong Kong. [PDF]

J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
Lu S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Generosity [PDF]

We develop a simple model of generous behavior. It is based on the premise that some people are generous, but everyone wants to appear generous. Although non-monetary donations are always inefficient, our model predicts donors to favor non-monetary ...
Ellingsen, Tore, Johannesson, Magnus
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Volunteering With Mild Cognitive Impairment: Implications for Subsequent Cognitive Changes [PDF]

Innov Aging
Huo M, Kim K.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Involvement/Exclusion Paradox of Spontaneous Volunteering

, 2017
M. Harris, D. Shaw, J. Scully, Christopher Smith, G. Hieke   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The fallacy of the Good Samaritan: Volunteering as a weird way of making money [PDF]

This paper explores individual motives for volunteering: The analysis is based on the interpretation of volunteering as a consumption good (consumption model) or as a mean to increase individual’s own human capital (investment model).
Franz Hackl, Gerald J Pruckner, Martin Halla   +2 more
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