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Why Poverty in the Present Matters for Intergenerational Concern and the Future of Humanity

2025-02-26

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<p>Contrary to perceived tensions between addressing present and future societal needs, we find present-day poverty and inequality are deeply connected with attitudes toward far-future welfare at both societal and individual levels. Study 1 (144 countries) shows that poorer, more unequal nations score lower on indices of intergenerational concern and farsighted policies. A Supplementary Study (34 countries, N = 12...

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Literature Corpus work: 79d24427-5101-55d9-bbd3-5cb15360fbaf
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2a5qn_v2

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