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).

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Identification Number : 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103317

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
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
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