“If you are truly driven by altruism, then you don’t care about the color of the person’s skin you are helping or the passport they carry,” said Dean Karlan, an economics professor at Yale University and founder of Innovations for Poverty Action, which uses randomized trials to test what social policies work. “If it is truly about altruism, you care about the impact you make in their lives, period. Money is movable. And I can send money to an organization in Uganda just as easily as I can to one in New Haven. But in Uganda, I can send the same dollar and do 10 times more.”
Comments