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Are Economic Preferences Shaped by the Family Context? The Impact of Birth Order and Siblings' Sex Composition on Economic Preferences
Detlefsen, Lena - 2019
social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings’ sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892225
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an ingroup or an out-group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294807
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274872