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Volunteers for Development: A Test of the Post-Materialist Hypothesis in Britiain, c. 1965-1987

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Volunteering by young adults for working in Third World countries on development projects emerged in Britain the late 1950s. Three decades later, the countrys largest volunteering sending agency, Voluntary Service Overseas, had sent more than 21,000 people abroad. The most common explanation for the emergence and growth of what is a small social movement is the affluence-value change theory, or Post-Materialism, which predicts that variations in the growth of the movement should vary positively with changes in wealth. This paper tests this prediction with a simple econometric model, and finds that this does not appear to be the case.

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  • Matthew Braham, 1999. "Volunteers for Development: A Test of the Post-Materialist Hypothesis in Britiain, c. 1965-1987," Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers _030, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
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    1. Foster, John I, 1976. "The Redistributive Effect of Inflation on Building Society Shares and Deposits: 1961-74," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(2), pages 67-76, November.
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