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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658544
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658546
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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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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229878
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2010 - This version: 15 June 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736603
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736607
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737064
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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 ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737081
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The impact of parental income and education on the health of their children
Doyle, Orla (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280782
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Breast is best, But for how long? : testing breastfeeding guidelines for optimal cognitive ability
Doyle, Orla; Timmins, Lori - 2008
paid maternity leave is appropriate for the maximal development of the child’s cognitive ability. While this study controls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870331