avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality … mothers’ prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children’s prosociality. In a second step, we … of one year. Our data include a two-year follow-up and reveal a significant and persistent increase in prosociality in …

We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the … explore if enduring exposure to a competitive environment persistently attenuates prosociality. Based on a large …-scale randomized intervention in the education context, we find lower levels of prosociality for students who just experienced a 2-year …

We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of … the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality … behavior than conservative ideology, independently of the differences in prosociality across the two groups. Differences …

-interest and prosociality. Actions of others may inform this decision. We conduct an experiment to test the effect of watching …