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Does living in a developing country make Westerners care more about development? I surveyed returned Mormon missionaries (who are quasi-randomly assigned to different countries for 2yrs) https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/3hwga/ …pic.twitter.com/rWzDvV4oGY
Being sent to Africa or Asia led to more self-reported interest in development, but no difference in - attitudes to aid or migration - personal giving (though Mormons give a lot to the church) - any other personal involvement in development (eg volunteering)
Posting this now as it seems I'm not now going to be able to attend the @ASREC_Religion conference in March, which looks excellenthttps://twitter.com/ASREC_Religion/status/1081241275142029312 …
Here's another link that hopefully works...https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330258679_Does_temporary_migration_from_rich_to_poor_countries_cause_commitment_to_development_Evidence_from_quasi-random_Mormon_mission_assignments …
Really interesting- would also be interested to know if results hold for other groups and types of travel (gap years/ voluntourism etc.)
me too, the challenge is finding quasi-experimental variation in who gets to go where, which is rare!
I've been wondering when someone would finally use this quasi-random assignment.
Devin Pope actually got there 10 years before me, which I only discovered after almost finishing a draft
I remember a couple people at BYU polisci were doing something with it when I was there
cc @ProfKarpo
Is VSO or peacecorp in any way random in the way they assign volunteers?
I immediately thought about Peace Corps as well. However, there is a self selection bias. And even though peace volunteers do not get to choose exactly where they go, they provide a regional preference in their application. Great article!
Have you considered polling them about their inflation or other macro beliefs; to see if their economic expectations are influenced by foreign experiences?
interesting!
Compelling idea that people form expectations from experiences (https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/131/1/53/2461168 …); but identification is hard since difficult to disentangle year-cohort-age effects With missionaries, can compare, within-cohort, effect of experience in Argentina (high inflation) w Japan
Why is public support in rich countries for global development critical for sustaining effective government and individual action?
That should read action *by those in the West*
Ah that does make more sense.
broken link mate
gah thanks. Thought I'd try out SocArXiv & didn't pay attention to point that they moderate stuff
Interesting findings. Keen to read paper once link is working!
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