RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103317
A1 Mehmood, Sultan
A1 Naseer, Shaheen
A1 Chen, Daniel L.
T1 Altruism in governance: Insights from randomized training for Pakistan's junior ministers
JF Journal of Development Studies
YR 2024
FD 2024-09
VO vol. 170
IS 103317
AB 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
SN 0022-0388
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/50038/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/130052