Eine Wirtschaftsjournalistin, selbst der "Generation Y" zuzurechnen, derjenigen, die nach 1985 geboren wurden, vermittelt in diesem Buch sowohl deren Innen- als auch deren Aussensicht und thematisiert dabei auch ambivalente Sachverhalte. Dabei wird die bisherige Literatur mit einbezogen und das...

The main aim of this paper is to compare the association of family structure with outcomes for young people in living in the West of Scotland (the Twenty-07 Study, N=1009) with their contemporaries living in Britain (the 1970 British Cohort Study N=11615) in the mid-1980s. A wide range of...

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...

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 ;...