We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …

motives on trustworthiness: (i) unconditional other-regarding preferences - like altruism, inequality aversion, quasi …

strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more prominent …

decisions in an experimental dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team …

-maximizing quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can verify the …

We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate the impact of institutions and institutional choice on truth …