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Last Published
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March 13, 2023 09:49 AM
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After
March 13, 2023 09:52 AM
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Primary Outcomes (Explanation)
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Main Hypotheses. —In our pre-analysis, we outline two main categories of policies that are most likely to be impacted by altruism training. For instance, we expect social policies, i.e. spending on health and education departments, to be positively impacted and selfish (self-oriented) policies, i.e. personal security and office budget, to be negatively affected (as they potentially crowd-out government funds) or unaffected (if government budget is not binding and there is no crowd-out). In the case of crowd-out, these selfish policies would be negatively impacted by increased value of altruism. Our main hypothesis, therefore, is that spending on social policies will increase and spending on selfish policies will decrease, while the other 8 policies will be unaffected.
Main Hypotheses. —In our pre-analysis, we outline two main categories of policies that are most likely to be impacted by altruism training. For instance, we expect social policies, i.e. spending on health and education departments, to be positively impacted and selfish (self-oriented) policies, i.e. personal security and office budget, to be negatively affected (as they potentially crowd-out government funds) or unaffected (if government budget is not binding and there is no crowd-out). In the case of crowd-out, these selfish policies would be negatively impacted by increased value of altruism. Our main hypothesis, therefore, is that spending on social policies will increase and spending on selfish policies will decrease, while the other 8 policies will be unaffected.
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Main Hypotheses. —We outline two main categories of policies that are most likely to be impacted by altruism training. For instance, we expect social policies, i.e. spending on health and education departments, to be positively impacted and selfish (self-oriented) policies, i.e. personal security and office budget, to be negatively affected (as they potentially crowd-out government funds) or unaffected (if government budget is not binding and there is no crowd-out). In the case of crowd-out, these selfish policies would be negatively impacted by increased value of altruism. Our main hypothesis, therefore, is that spending on social policies will increase and spending on selfish policies will decrease, while the other 8 policies will be unaffected.
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Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
Lectures are delivered over zoom and randomized at the individual level. Empathy malleable vs. empathy utilitarian vs. both vs. control in online lectures. Class-wide lectures will also be randomized, focusing on emotional intelligence vs. macro-economics lectures.
Update March 13, 2023: We now also are collecting data on universe of spending decisions by the civil servants. Specificially, the study experimentally evaluates three methods of cultivating prosocial behaviour (i) Utilitarian Value of Empathy (ii) Malleability of Empathy (iii) Joint Utilitarian and Malleability Treatment (iv) Placebo training.
We outline two main categories of policies that are most likely to be impacted by altruism training. For instance, we expect social policies, i.e. spending on health and education departments, to be positively impacted and self-oriented policies, i.e. personal security and office budget, to be negatively affected (as they potentially crowd-out government funds). Our main hypothesis, therefore, is that spending on social policies will increase and spending on selfish policies will decrease, while the other 8 policies will be unaffected. For more details, see the pre-analysis plan.
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After
Lectures are delivered over zoom and randomized at the individual level. Empathy malleable vs. empathy utilitarian vs. both vs. control in online lectures. Class-wide lectures will also be randomized, focusing on emotional intelligence vs. macro-economics lectures.
Update March 13, 2023: We now also are collecting data on universe of spending decisions by the civil servants. Specificially, the study experimentally evaluates three methods of cultivating prosocial behaviour (i) Utilitarian Value of Empathy (ii) Malleability of Empathy (iii) Joint Utilitarian and Malleability Treatment (iv) Placebo treatment.
We outline two main categories of policies that are most likely to be impacted by altruism training. For instance, we expect social policies, i.e. spending on health and education departments, to be positively impacted and self-oriented policies, i.e. personal security and office budget, to be negatively affected (as they potentially crowd-out government funds). Our main hypothesis, therefore, is that spending on social policies will increase and spending on selfish policies will decrease, while the other 8 policies will be unaffected. For more details, see the pre-analysis plan.
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