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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ramos-Toro, Diego
• 署名单位: Dartmouth College
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20201332
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1294-1333
• 关键词: cultural transmission; parochial altruism; HANSENS-DISEASE; LEPROSY; susceptibility; BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; EVOLUTION; ECONOMICS; medicine

摘要

This paper explores the intergenerational consequences of social exclusion on prosociality. A lab-in-the-field approach in the histor-ical region of Colombia's leper colony reveals that descendants of socially excluded individuals are locally altruistic and extend such altruism to outsiders who have undergone similar circumstances. These individuals also display mistrust toward those who have , his-torically , been exclusionary-in this case , doctors. The content of historical narratives shared by ancestors who were excluded , which emphasize the endured mistreatment and doctors' historical misin-formation , is one mechanism that partially explains the intergenera-tional patterns. (JEL D64, H51, I12, I18, N36, N96, Z13)