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).
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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Date: | September 2024 |
Refereed: | Yes |
Place of Publication: | Londres |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2025 09:51 |
Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2025 15:15 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:130052 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/50038 |