Disadvantage and prosocial behavior: the effects of the Wenchuan earthquake

Rao, Li‐Lin; Han, Ru; Ren, Xiaopeng; Bai, Xinwen; Zheng, Rui; Liu, Huan; Wang, Zuojun; Li, Jin‐Zhen; Zhang, Kan; Li, Shu

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.07.002

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“…Other emerging evidence exploring the effects of post-election violence (Becchetti, Conzo, and Romeo 2014), and earthquake and tsunami damage (Caló-Blanco, et al 2015;Cassar, Healy, and Von Kessler 2011;Rao et al 2011) also mimics the main finding of this paper, namely that survival threats tend to enhance local cooperation. We expect that work in these areas will yield new insights about what psychological, economic and social mechanisms could lead those who experience violence to shift to more cooperative behavior.…”

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer¹,

Blattman²,

Chytilová³

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes.You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. licence. www.econstor.eu If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E Christopher BlattmanColumbia University, NBER and IZA Julie Chytilová Charles University in Prague and CERGE-EI Joseph HenrichHarvard University and CIFAR Edward MiguelUniversity of California, Berkeley and NBER The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Tamar MittsColumbiaIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. In this article, we discuss and synthesize a rapidly growing body of research from which a new stylized fact has emerged: people exposed to war violence tend to behave more cooperatively after war. We show the range of cases where this holds true, and persists, even many years after war. We can do so because of a wealth of new data. Until recently, a paucity of individuallevel data from conflict and post-conflict societies prevented researchers from systematically exploring the legacies of war on social and political behavior. In the last decade, however, interdisciplinary teams of researchers -mainly in economics, anthropology, political science, and psychology -have begun to design research projects specifically to understand how exposure to war violence a...

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

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“…In the case of domestic disasters, there may be wider within-country effects caused by the disaster that impact donations, through channels other than the fundraising appeals. These include changes in levels of social cohesion and pro-sociality (De Alessi, 1975;Solnit, 2009;Rao et al, 2011) and religiosity (Bentzen, 2015) as well as effects on economic conditions and government spending (Fidrmuc et al, 2015).…”

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Lift and shift: the effect of fundraising interventions in charity space and time

Smith

Scharf²,

Ottoni-Wilhelm³

2017

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Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To explain this, we develop a two-period model with two sources of warm glow that relates donation responses to underlying preference parameters. A dynamic framework, combined with rich data, provides opportunities to identify substitutability/complementarity in warm glow. The observed pattern is possible only if the two sources of warm glow are substitutes and warm glow is intertemporally substitutable.

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“…Prosocial behavior is generally defined as any behavior someone engages in that benefits another (Eisenberg, ; Penner, Dovidio, Piliavin, & Schroeder, ), including helping, sharing, cooperating, providing support, and taking part in volunteer activities. Existing studies have used different approaches to assess prosocial behavior, such as observing the presence and frequency of typical types of prosocial behavior in a naturalistic setting (Gurven & Winking, ), measuring with structured laboratory tasks such as the dictator game (e.g., Rao et al., ), or implementing self‐ or other‐reported behavioral measures (e.g., Carlo & Randall, ). The positive consequences of prosocial behavior have been greatly evidenced: Prosocial individuals tend to have better mental and physical health and more harmonious interpersonal relationships (see a review in Penner et al., ).…”

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“…Only a few studies have examined the longitudinal changes in prosocial behavior following trauma. For example, Rao et al (2011) followed a sample of 1,720 earthquake victims and 727 nonvictims at about 1-month, 5-months, and 12-months postearthquake, and found that victims displayed more prosocial behavior than nonvictims across the time points. Reiter-Purtill, Vannatta, Gerhardt, Correll, and Noll (2003) investigated 69 children who had undergone cancer treatment and 77 healthy controls, and reported that the former were stably more prosocial than the latter over 2 years after treatment ended.…”

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Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents Exposed to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

Qin

Zhou

Fan

et al. 2016

Journal of Traumatic Stress

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This longitudinal study examined the developmental trajectories of prosocial behavior and related predictors among adolescents exposed to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. At 6-, 18-, and 30-months postearthquake, we followed a sample of 1,573 adolescents. Self-report measures were used to assess earthquake exposure, postearthquake negative life events, prosocial behavior, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, social support, and coping style. Data were analyzed using growth mixture modeling and multinomial logistic regressions. Four trajectories of postearthquake prosocial behavior were identified in the sample: (a) high/enhancing (35.0%), (b) high/stable (29.4%), (c) low/declining (33.6%), and (d) low/steeply declining (2.0%). Female gender, more social support, and greater positive coping were significant factors related to a higher probability of developing the high/enhancing trajectory. These findings may be helpful for us to identify adolescents with poor prosocial behavior after exposure to earthquakes so as to provide them with appropriate intervention.

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Disadvantage and prosocial behavior: the effects of the Wenchuan earthquake

Cited by 87 publications

References 23 publications

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Lift and shift: the effect of fundraising interventions in charity space and time

Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents Exposed to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

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