Do National Service Programs Improve Subjective Well-Being in Communities?

Author:

Velasco Kristopher1ORCID,Paxton Pamela1,Ressler Robert W.1,Weiss Inbar1,Pivnick Lilla1

Affiliation:

1. The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

Abstract

Since the creation of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in 1964 and AmeriCorps in 1993, a stated goal of national service programs has been to strengthen the overall health of communities across the United States. But whether national service programs have such community effects remains an open question. Using longitudinal cross-lagged panel and change-score models from 2005 to 2013, this study explores whether communities with national service programs exhibit greater subjective well-being. We use novel measures of subjective well-being derived from tweeted expressions of emotions, engagement, and relationships in 1,347 U.S. counties. Results show that national service programs improve subjective well-being primarily by mitigating threats to well-being and communities that exhibit more engagement are better able to attract national service programs. Although limited in size, these persistent effects are robust to multiple threats to inference and provide important new evidence on how national service improves communities in the United States.

Funder

Center for National and Community Service

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Marketing,Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science

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