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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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less inclined to favor redistribution and they are more likely to self-assess themselves as right-wing than all the other …
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We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase with age. -- social preferences ; children ; adolescents ;...
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We elicit distributional fairness ideals of impartial spectators using an incentivized economic experiment in a large … and heterogeneous sample of the German population. Our dataset allows us to relate our experimental data on fairness …-leaning voters are more likely to be efficiency-minded; and vi) young and highly-educated participants hold di.erent fairness ideals …
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We elicit distributional fairness ideals of impartial spectators using an incentivized elicitation in a large and …-educated participants hold different fairness ideals than the rest of the population. Moreover, we show that the fairness ideals predict … preferences for redistribution and intervention by the government, as well as actual charitable giving, even after controlling for …
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We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...
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In an experiment, we study risk-taking of cohabitating student couples, finding that couples' decisions are closer to risk-neutrality than single partners' decisions. This finding is similar to earlier experiments with randomly assigned groups, corroborating external validity of earlier results....
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-level utility functions with two parameters that govern the trade-offs between equity and efficiency and giving to self and to other … on social preferences. As a side result, I find that the weight on self, but not the individual equity-efficiency trade …
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a novel test to evaluate the relationship between social status and ethical behavior. We successfully prime a large …
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