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

No 474, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

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: 14 pages
Date: 2010-12-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp, nep-ltv, nep-mic and nep-pol
Note: Published in Economics Letters, 2011, Vol. 110, pp. 248-251
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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.

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