Each year during the holiday season, soup kitchens and charities alike are flooded with offers to volunteer. But is a donation of your time most beneficial to the charity, or would a financial contribution provide more value? Researchers from Portland State University and Texas A&M University wondered what drives volunteering — especially when a monetary donation would have more impact. Their study, “Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations,” was published in this spring in the journal Management Science.
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org