CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Pálvölgyi, Zsigmond |
|---|---|
| Title | The Effect of Volunteering on Women's Wages: Evidence from the United States |
| Summary | This thesis estimates the wage return of volunteer work among women in the United States. Counter to previous comparable estimations for the US, my identification strategy can handle the highly endogenous motive of self-selection into volunteer work using information of precipitation. I identify local average treatment effects (LATE) using state-level variation of precipitation as an instrument, which creates exogeneous variation among individuals at different states in their volunteer labor supply. I find that precipitation’s effect on volunteer activity is heterogenous across the United States, since it mostly affects compliers at those states which are classified with snow climates. Because of the huge regional wage differences in these states, I show that the use of nominal wages as a dependent variable violates the independence assumption of the LATE estimation and downward biases the estimation results, while the use of living-cost-adjusted wages can eliminate this bias. My results show no evidence of significant wage returns of volunteer activity among compliers; however, the characterization of compliers shows that they are weakly attached to the labor market. |
| Supervisor | Weber, Andrea |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/palvolgyi_zsigmond.pdf |
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