Arbeitspapier
Voluntary Activities and Daily Happiness in the US
This paper analyzes differences in daily happiness between those individuals in the United States who perform voluntary activities during the day, and those who do not. Using the Well-Being Module of the American Time Use Survey 2010, we initially find that those who devote any time to voluntary activities during the day report higher levels of daily happiness than those who do not. Comparing the happiness obtained from a range of activities, we find that volunteering is among the most enjoyable, indicating that time spent on voluntary activities is utility-enhancing. But when the issue of reverse causality is taken into account, we find no differences in daily happiness between volunteers and non-volunteers, which indicates that happier individuals are also more likely to volunteer. We document that the effect of voluntary activities on the experienced utility of individuals can be decomposed into a "time-composition" effect and a "personality" effect, with the latter explaining between 11% and 46% of the observed difference.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8764
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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voluntary activities
time use survey
experienced utility
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio
Molina, José Alberto
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio
- Molina, José Alberto
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2015
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