Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden

Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen () and Eva Ranehill

No 735, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the prisoner’s dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find some evidence that children cooperate more in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less cooperative than boys, whereas our results indicate the opposite gender gap in Sweden. On average, children are more cooperative with boys than with girls.

Keywords: cooperation; children; gender differences; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D03 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2011-04-11, Revised 2012-06-12
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Journal Article: Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden (2014)
Working Paper: Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden (2012)
Working Paper: Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden (2012)
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