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We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
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We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …
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The ability to delay gratification has been shown to be related to higher education and income and better health status …. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately …
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from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …
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We study with 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 …
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About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of … development of economic behavior and its determinants is important to understand economic behavior of adults and to provide a … increase of papers, we provide the first overview of economic experiments with children and adolescents. We focus on the …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
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We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270015
- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …
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