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标题：Volunteering and firefighters' response time
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作者：Francis Carlo Petterini ; Murilo Pedro Demarchi
期刊名称：Economics Bulletin
电子版ISSN：1545-2921
出版年度：2019
卷号：39
期号：2
页码：1-13
出版社：Economics Bulletin
摘要：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.