Cooperation and Discrimination within and Across Language Borders : Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Angerer, Silvia
Other Persons:	Glätzle-Rützle, Daniela (contributor) ; Lergetporer, Philipp (contributor) ; Sutter, Matthias (contributor)
Publisher:	[2015]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Kinder \| Children \| Sprache \| Language \| Mehrsprachigkeit \| Multilingualism \| Diskriminierung \| Discrimination

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