http://tuftsdaily.com/features/2015/10/12/qa-professor-karen-ladin-recently-published-study/ (http://tuftsdaily.com/features/2015/10/12/qa-professor-karen-ladin-recently-published-study/)
Q&A: PROFESSOR KEREN LADIN DISCUSSES RECENTLY PUBLISHED STUDY ABOUT ORGAN DONOR DESIGNATION
BY CONSTANTINOS ANGELAKIS (http://tuftsdaily.com/author/cangelakis/)
Keren Ladin, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, recently published a study (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281636434_Does_Social_Capital_Explain_Community-Level_Differences_in_Organ_Donor_Designation) in the "Milbank Quarterly," a health and public policy journal. Ladin, who has been researching organ donations since 2007, finds that social capital — which, according to the Harvard Kennedy School, (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/programs/saguaro/about-social-capital) refers to the "specific benefits that flow from the trust, reciprocity, information and cooperation associated with social networks [or who people know]" — can account for over half of organ donation designations. This new insight shifts the focus from individual characteristics to community interaction as the basis for analyzing such altruistic decisions.
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