Tiana Marrese

Tiana Marrese, MSc.

  • Student, PhD in Social Welfare

    • Research Interests

    Economics of the nonprofit sector

    Nonprofit and volunteer management

    Nonprofit employment and wages

    Volunteering

    Prosocial behaviors

    Statistics

    Econometrics

    Tiana Marrese comes to the University of Pennsylvania with a background in mathematics and economics. The core of her research asks how and why communities engage in prosocial behaviors across space and time. Marrese answers this question through quantitative, macro-level analyses that place an emphasis on paid and unpaid (volunteer) labor in the nonprofit sector. Her results focus on the implications of this behavior relative to market outcomes.

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    Cohort

    2021-2022

    Advisor

    Dr. Femida Handy

    Fellowship/Grant Support

    Oxford-Penn Social Impact Fellowship Program

    Dissertation Topic

    Paid and Unpaid Labor in the Nonprofit Sector

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    Current PhD Students

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    Publications & Media

    Ferris, A., Marrese, T., Cnaan, R. A., Choi, D., & Handy, F. (2024). Who Volunteers at Refugee and Immigrant Nonprofits? Two Studies Exploring Volunteering at Nonprofits Serving Refugees and Immigrants. Nonprofit Policy Forum. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2023-0066

    Marrese, T., Greenspan, I., Katz-Gerro, T., & Handy, F. (2023). Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental behaviors: do grandparents’ environmental behaviors influence grandchildren?. Sociological Spectrum, 44(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2274021

    Choi, D., Ferris, A., Marrese, T., Cnaan, R. A., & Handy, F. (2023). The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers and Donors in the US. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2023.2232844