Economics, Donations and Volunteering Behavior:Empirical Evidence from Taiwan
| Autor: | Pei-Han Chen, 陳姵含 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 98 According to Economics, person’s altruistic behavior is still rooted in self-interest; therefore, altruistic behavior won’t be conducted without any reward following behind. However, in reality, we do see people show their concerns about charity and public affairs. Accordingly, the thesis aims to scrutinize that if the self-interest hypothesis in Economics is totally correct and that what will influence donation and voluntary behavior. First of all, basing on Duncan（1999）, the thesis contructs a model of donation and volunteering with multi-motivation and warm glow. The thesis reaches a conclusion that there are four optimal choices in the model: first, one chooses to be volunteer rather than donation. In the second situation, an individual prefers donation to volunteering. In another situation, one will do both at the same time. In the last situation, an individual chooses neither donation nor voluntary work. Moreover, the thesis uses two databases, Survey of Social Development Trend in 2003 and Taiwan Social Change Survey in 2004, to do empirical analyses. Besides, a multinominal logit model is used to analyze the factors influencing one’s optimal choices of donation and volunteering. A tobit model is adapted to investigate what influences the amount of donation and the hours of volunteering. The empirical results show that females, elders, the married and people with high education have more motivations to donate and be volunteers. On the other hand, the policy of government will also influrnce one’s optimal choices and the result indicates the more government expenditure on welfare is, the less one’s will of donation and volunteering is. Besides, people with Economics background have less motivation to be volunteers. At last, the research on the motivation of altruistic behavior comes to the conclusion that people’s motivation is out of pure altruism and impure altruism. As a result, the statement that people do anything out of self-interest, as Economics indicates, is not necessary because the motivation of altruistic behavior may come out of sympathy, compassion, some other factors and so on. |
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