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Familiarity Does Not Breed Contempt: Generosity, Discrimination, and Diversity in Delhi Schools
The American Economic Review, 2019 I exploit a natural experiment in Indian schools to study how being integrated with poor students affects the social behaviors and academic outcomes of rich students.
Gautam Rao
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The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 Leveraging unique administrative data and a sharp increase in benefit generosity in a difference-in-differences research design, we estimate the impact of workers’ compensation wage replacement benefits on individual behavior and program costs.
Marika Cabral, M. Dillender
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The Social Contagion of Generosity
PLoS ONE, 2014 Why do people help strangers when there is a low probability that help will be directly reciprocated or socially rewarded? A possible explanation is that these acts are contagious: those who receive or observe help from a stranger become more likely to help others.
Tsvetkova, Milena, Macy, Michael W.
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Cracow Indological Studies, 2016 The present article is focused on the notion of dāna and its use in Śivrājbhūṣaṇ, a late 17th-century rītigranth composed by Bhūṣaṇ in the court of Śivājī Bhoṃsle, shortly before the coronation.
Piotr Borek
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A neural link between generosity and happiness
Nature Communications, 2017 Generous behaviour is known to increase happiness, which could thereby motivate generosity. In this study, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging and a public pledge for future generosity to investigate the brain mechanisms that link generous ...
Soyoung Q. Park +5 more
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Medical Care, 2019 Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background: Low-income adults in the United States have historically had limited access to dental coverage and poor dental health outcomes.
G. Wehby, Wei Lyu, Dan Shane
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.There is an unmet need in metastatic breast cancer patients to monitor therapy response in real time. In this study, we show how a noninvasive and affordable strategy based on sequencing of plasma samples with longitudinal tracking of tumour fraction paired with a statistical model provides valuable information on treatment response in advance of the ...
Emma J. Beddowes +20 more
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Moral essentialism and generosity among children and adults.
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2019 Children and adults view many characteristics in an essentialist way-as innate, immutable, and biological. Prior work has typically investigated essentialism regarding broad domains (e.g., gender rather than maleness/femaleness).
Larisa Heiphetz
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Archaeology of generosity [PDF]
Heródoto: Revista do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Antiguidade Clássica e suas Conexões Afro-asiáticas, 2018 Special issue in honour to Professor Pedro Paulo Abreu ...
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Generosity and Political Preferences [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 We test whether generosity is related to political preferences and partisanship in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States using incentivized dictator games. The total sample consists of more than 5,000 respondents. We document that support for social spending and redistribution is positively correlated with generosity in all four ...
Peter John Loewen +7 more
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