
Episode 16: Misbehaving
Hidden Brain
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Are You Really a Winner at Any Time?
The source of people's money ends up changing how they spend the money. A study by Viviana Zelizer, I believe at Princeton University, looked at prostitutes in Oslo. The sex workers were willing to spend money that they received in the form of welfare checks or other kinds of subsidies on things like rent and important things. But they spent the money that they earned from sex work far more likely to spend that on drugs and alcohol.
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