title: Volunteering, income and health.
abstract: Separate literatures have related volunteering to health gains and income gains. We study the association between volunteering, income and health within one statistical framework. A state-of-the-art mediation analysis is conducted on data concerning the health, volunteering and sociodemographic characteristics of 42926 individuals within 29 European countries. We find that volunteering is positively associated to self-rated health. This association is partially mediated by household income.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Detollenaere
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Willems
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Economics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.|Research Foundation - Flanders, Brussels, Belgium.|Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.|IRES, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium.|Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Stijn
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1660-5165
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baert
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014838:Volunteers