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Volunteering and firefighters' response time

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  • Francis Carlo Petterini

    (Federal University of Santa Catarina)

  • Murilo Pedro Demarchi

    (Military Fire Corps of Santa Catarina)

Abstract

One out of ten Brazilian cities has a fire station, but because of volunteering in the Santa Catarina state this ratio is one out of two. While it is clear the volunteering is useful to spread the service, it is not clear whether the firefighter's service quality worsens with the volunteers. The article's purpose is analysis this by considering the response time as a quality indicator. Exploring a database of more than 600,000 attended emergencies, and using propensity score matching and regression procedures, it is concluded that are not worsens in the response time when volunteers are in the teams. This it is pointing that a similar volunteering policy can raise the coverage rate of the emergency services, and consequently it can improve social welfare.

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  • Francis Carlo Petterini & Murilo Pedro Demarchi, 2019. "Volunteering and firefighters' response time," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 39(2), pages 1018-1029.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-18-00936
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    Keywords

    volunteering; firefighters; emergency response time;
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    JEL classification:

    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
    • R5 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis

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