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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010 - This version: 15 June 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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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010
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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013 - This version: 24 June 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on a ltruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014
We study in 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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Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age : an experiment in Austria and Sweden
Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; … - 2010
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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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010 - This version: 09/16/2010
schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a … and equity concerns, which sometimes cut in opposite directions. Contributions, which seem mainly determined by boundedly … rational responses to incentives, are influenced by egalitarian, equity and strategic considerations. -- equality ; efficiency …
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Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age ? : an experiment in Austria and Sweden
Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229467
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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799081
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011 - This version: 17 February 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...
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The good, the bad and the naive : do fair prices signal good types or do they induce good behaviour?
Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2012 - This Version 5 April 2012
"good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three …
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