Estimation of state influence parameters on volunteer behavior model based on analysis of incentive function
Abstract. The article analyzes the behavioral models of the volunteer community, as well as state regulation of the volunteer movement in Russia. The psychological and economic factors of volunteer behaviorare studied, based on the generalization of which the prerequisites for creating an economic and mathematical model are formed. The factor of psychological inclination of individuals to volunteer activity is identified, for the characterization of which the concept of inclination to altruism or altruism is introduced. The structure of an economic and mathematical model of volunteer behavior is proposed, integrating altruism and material interest of individuals, which makes it possible to assess the interconnected influence of psychological and material incentives on volunteer activity. The information base of the study was the distribution of the structure of volunteer time aggregated by Rosstat for four reporting periods (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022). As a basic research method, the method of modelingthe incentive function was used, the assessment of the coefficients of which makes it possible to calculate the estimate of the incentive fund aimed at encouraging individuals to volunteer activity. A procedure for determining the coefficients of the incentive function has been developed, based on the hypotheses of individual rational behavior and the decreasing nature of the analyzed function. Numerical experiments have been conducted that model the stimulation of volunteer activity in the conditions of Russian society based on volunteer statistics in 2016-2022. Within the framework of the modeling, the coefficients of the incentive function have been determined and the possible volumes of the incentive fund that generate the corresponding volunteer actions have been calculated. As a result, trends in changes in volunteer activity have been identified, and conclusions have been made about the specifics of these processes in the Russian Federation.
Keywords: behavioral model, government regulation, altruism, incentive model, volunteer.
Highlights:
- the behavioral model of volunteer activity is determined by both psychological factors of the personality of individuals and their material interest in participating in socially significant events, as a result of which the model includes the parameter of an individual`s altruism and the parameter of material incentives;
- the total indicator of material incentives received by all volunteers allows us to assess the degree of influence of the state budget and extra-budgetary (corporate) sources of financing on the scale of volunteer activity;
- statistical data aggregated by state statistics bodies provide an empirical basis for calculating the estimated values of the coefficients of the incentive function and the total fund for financing volunteer activity.
Mikhail I. Geraskin - Samara National Research University named after academician S.P. Korolev, Samara, Russia