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Social Exclusion and Social Preferences: Evidence from Colombia’s Leper Colony

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Published in 2023 at "American Economic Review"

DOI: 10.1257/aer.20201332

Abstract: This paper explores the intergenerational consequences of social exclusion on prosociality. A lab-in-the-field approach in the historical region of Colombia’s leper colony reveals that descendants of socially excluded individuals are locally altruistic and extend such… read more here.

Keywords: leper colony; colombia leper; exclusion social; social exclusion ... See more keywords