eprintid: 50038 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/05/00/38 datestamp: 2025-01-07 09:51:06 lastmod: 2025-02-12 15:15:52 status_changed: 2025-02-12 15:15:52 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Mehmood, Sultan creators_name: Naseer, Shaheen creators_name: Chen, Daniel L. creators_idrefppn: 249504227 creators_idrefppn: 241586631 creators_halaffid: 1002422;441569 title: Altruism in governance: Insights from randomized training for Pakistan's junior ministers ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: 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. date: 2024-09 date_type: published publisher: F. Cass id_number: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103317 official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/130052 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: FALSE doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103317 view_date_year: 2024 full_text_status: none publication: Journal of Development Studies volume: vol. 170 number: 103317 place_of_pub: Londres refereed: TRUE issn: 0022-0388 oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:130052 harvester_local_overwrite: volume harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: abstract harvester_local_overwrite: publisher harvester_local_overwrite: id_number harvester_local_overwrite: hal_id harvester_local_overwrite: hal_version harvester_local_overwrite: hal_url harvester_local_overwrite: hal_passwd harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub oai_lastmod: 2025-01-09T09:37:41Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 hal_id: hal-04869767 hal_passwd: vrz0y@ hal_version: 1 hal_url: https://hal.science/hal-04869767 citation: Mehmood, Sultan , Naseer, Shaheen and Chen, Daniel L. (2024) Altruism in governance: Insights from randomized training for Pakistan's junior ministers. Journal of Development Studies, vol. 170 (103317).