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American generosity after disasters: 4 questions answered

  • Written by Patrick Rooney, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
imageMillions of Americans donate to relief efforts after natural disasters.MISHELLA/Shutterstock.com

Editor’s note: After 9/11, Americans responded with the kind of outpouring of generosity usually reserved for the most powerful hurricanes and earthquakes. Ever since those terrorist attacks, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of...

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