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

Peter Martinsson, Katarina Nordblom (), Daniela Glätzle-Rützler and Matthias Sutter

Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: social preferences; children; adolescents; distributional experiment; Austria; Sweden. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D63 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2010-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp, nep-ltv and nep-pol
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