Distributional Preferences in Adolescent Peer Networks

Simon Schürz (schuerz0602@hotmail.com), Yonas Alem, Martin Kocher and Fredrik Carlsson
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Simon Schürz: Federal Statistical office of Germany

No 22-5, EfD Discussion Paper from Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg

Abstract: We study distributional preferences in adolescent peer networks. Using incentivized choices between allocations for themselves and a passive agent, children are classified into efficiency-loving, inequality-loving, inequality-averse, and spiteful types. We find that pairs of students who report a friendship link are more likely to exhibit the same preference type than other students who attend the same school. The relation between types is almost completely driven by inequality-loving and spiteful types. The role of peer networks in explaining distributional preferences goes beyond network composition effects. A low rank in academic performance and a central position within the network relate positively to a higher likelihood of being classified as spiteful. Hence, social hierarchies seem to be correlated with distributional preference types.

Keywords: Social Preferences; Peers; Networks; Preference Transmission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D63 I25 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2022-11-20
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