Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden

We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase with age.<p>

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Year of publication:	2010-12-10
Authors:	Martinsson, Peter ; Nordblom, Katarina ; Rützler, Daniela ; Sutter, Matthias
Institutions:	Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan
Subject:	social preferences \| children \| adolescents \| distributional experiment \| Austria \| Sweden

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Series:	Working Papers in Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Published in Economics Letters, 2011, Vol. 110, pp. 248-251 Published as Martinsson, Peter, Katarina Nordblom, Daniela Rützler and Matthias Sutter, 'Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden' in Economics Letters, 2011, pages 248-251. The text is part of a series Working Papers in Economics Number 474 14 pages
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D64 - Altruism
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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