TY  - JOUR
CY  - Londres
ID  - publications50038
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/130052
IS  - 103317
A1  - Mehmood, Sultan
A1  - Naseer, Shaheen
A1  - Chen, Daniel L.
Y1  - 2024/09//
N2  - Randomizing different schools of thought in training altruism finds that training junior deputy ministers in the utility of empathy renders at least a 0.4 standard deviation increase in altruism. Treated ministers increased their perspective-taking: blood donations doubled, but only when blood banks requested their exact blood type. Perspective-taking in strategic dilemmas improved. Field measures such as orphanage visits and volunteering in impoverished schools also increased, as did their test scores in teamwork assessments in policy scenarios. Overall, our results underscore that the utility of empathy can be a parsimonious foundation for the formation of prosociality, even impacting the behavior of adults in the field.
PB  - F. Cass
JF  - Journal of Development Studies
VL  - vol. 170
SN  - 0022-0388
TI  - Altruism in governance: Insights from randomized training for Pakistan's junior ministers
AV  - none
ER  -