Donor Financial Capacity Drives Racial Inequality in Medical Crowdsourced Funding.
Americans facing large health-related expenses have increasingly turned to online crowdsourced funding for support, initiating 250,000 medical fundraisers on GoFundMe in 2018. Recent research indicates that these fundraisers yield inequitable outcomes, with White crowdfunding beneficiaries receiving...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 100; no. 4; pp. 1856 - 1884 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2022
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