Education and voluntary work: Evidence from Turkish time use survey

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buir.contributor.authorAkyol, Pelin
buir.contributor.authorOkten, Çağla
buir.contributor.orcidAkyol, Pelin|0000-0002-1017-8844
buir.contributor.orcidOkten, Çağla|0000-0001-5312-4208
dc.citation.epage320en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage275en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber43en_US
dc.contributor.authorAkar, B.
dc.contributor.authorAkyol, Pelin
dc.contributor.authorOkten, Çağla
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-22T13:29:21Z
dc.date.available2023-02-22T13:29:21Z
dc.date.issued2022-06
dc.departmentDepartment of Economicsen_US
dc.description.abstractWe use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on voluntary work by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Existing studies use ordinary least squares regressions and establish a positive and significant association; however, such correlation may be induced by the endogeneity problems such as omitted variable bias and reverse causality. In line with the previous studies, our OLS results also show that there is a positive association between schooling and men’s voluntary work. However, when we use the education reform as an instrument for education, a different picture emerges. The exogenous education reform increased the education levels of individuals significantly. Using the education reform as an instrument for education level, we find that increased education of compliers has a negative but insignificant causal impact on the probability and hours of voluntary work for men. Our results suggest that omitted individual factors such as ability and intelligence, and unobservable family characteristics such as values and social norms are likely to have played a role in the positive association of education with voluntary work found in OLS studies. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12122-022-09335-0en_US
dc.identifier.issn0195-3613
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/111611
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-022-09335-0en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Labor Researchen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectExternalitiesen_US
dc.subjectHelpingen_US
dc.subjectVolunteeringen_US
dc.titleEducation and voluntary work: Evidence from Turkish time use surveyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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