 SOCIAL PREFERENCES OF YOUNG ADULTS IN JAPAN: THE ROLES OF AGE AND GENDERThe Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2023, vol. 68, issue 06, 2215-2223 Abstract: Deviations from self-interest in economic behavior have recently been featured in models of “social preferences.†This study examines the social preferences of Japanese university students using Charness and Rabin’s [(2002). Understanding social preferences with simple tests. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117, 817–869] experimental design and Martinsson et al.’s [(2011). Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age: An experiment in Austria and Sweden. Economics Letters, 110, 248–251] empirical methodology. The obtained distributions of preference types are as follows: self-interest — 14%, competitive — 23%, difference aversion — 73% and social-welfare — 22%. I find a significant age effect for the self-interest preference alone, and a gender difference for the self-interest, difference aversion and social-welfare preferences. Keywords: Social preference; young adult; age; gender; distributional experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:serxxx:v:68:y:2023:i:06:n:s0217590820500770 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1142/S0217590820500770 Access Statistics for this article The Singapore Economic Review (SER) is currently edited by Euston Quah More articles in The Singapore Economic Review (SER) from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. |
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