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

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 110, issue 3, 248-251

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)
Date: 2011
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