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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life

Sutter, Matthias; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2010

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 younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010

Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...

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The effects of two influential early childhood interventions on health and healthy behaviors

Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2015

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....

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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices

Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

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Delay of gratification and the role of defaults : an experiment with kindergarten children

Sutter, Matthias; Yilmaz, Levent; Oberauer, Manuela - 2015

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...

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Cooperation and discrimination within and across language borders : evidence from children in a bilingual city

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...

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Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity

Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - 2012

To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

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 theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...

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Health insurance and child health : evidence from Mexico

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2016

health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor …

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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes

Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks …. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey … data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We find that, compared with a twin sibling who did not suffer from …

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