Can Empathy Explain Gender Differences in Economic Policy Views in the United States?
研究发现，共情水平差异解释了美国男女在政府干预经济政策上的观点分歧，共情更强的人更支持干预政策，且控制共情后，贫困、不平等和福利政策上的性别差异消失。
This paper shows that different levels of empathy of men and women explain the well-documented gender differences in interventionist government economic policy views in the United States. Using the Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) to measure empathy, the study finds that more empathic people support more interventionist policies. While greater empathy leads both men and women to support more government action, there is no gender difference in the effects of empathy on policy views. When policy views are separated by area, gender differences on policies concerning poverty, inequality, and social welfare disappear once empathy is accounted for, though they persist in views on free markets.