I spoke yesterday at the Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference about the first paper of my PhD. I finally answered the question I asked two years ago in this post: http://www.confoundingfactor.org/archives/145 For those who are interested, the answer is: the Raising of the School Leaving Age. Those extra 16 year old volunteers were essentially timetabled into it. More soon.
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