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We engaged over 430 Canadian children in a series of activities designed to reveal their evaluations of three ethnic … dictator game. Our experiments took place at the children’s schools during their normal school day, allowing us to evaluate the … children from the dominant White category have a clear sense of White ethnic identity, and tend to favor White recipients in …
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inequitable outcomes, even when the latter favors oneself. Research examining children’s behavior has shown that the tendency to … share half of one’s endowment increases with age between the ages of 3 and 8. However, the satisfaction the children derive … and ultimatum games) suggesting that young children (5–6years old) are aware of the norms of fairness but choose to act …
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social preferences of young children who do not understand the economic functions of money. From an economic point of view …. After money activation, children were more selfish in economic games, revealing less prosocial preferences and were less … prone to help the experimenter than children from the control group. Even if children at this stage do not understand the …
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We study the effect of alternative parental teaching strategies on the propensity to save and the amount saved during adulthood. Using a panel dataset from the Dutch DNB Household Survey we find that parental teaching to save increases the likelihood that an adult will save by 16%, and the...
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Lying and deceiving is present not only in adults but also among children and teenagers and represents an economically … deceptive behavior in children and teenagers is scarce. In this paper, we study how age influences the propensity to tell “black …” and “white” lies in a sample of 383 children and teenagers aged 10/11 and 15/16years. Our results show that a non …
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