Gender and cooperation in children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden

We compare how children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden cooperate in a Prisoner's Dilemma. We introduce a new measurement device for cooperation that can be easily understood by children. There is some evidence of more cooperation in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less cooperative than boys, whereas our results indicate the opposite in Sweden. Girls are in general more cooperative with boys than with girls. Relating cooperation to competitiveness, this appears to be task and country dependent.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo ; Dreber, Anna ; von Essen, Emma ; Ranehill, Eva
Publisher:	Stockholm : Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI)
Subject:	Gefangenendilemma \| Kooperation \| Geschlecht \| Test \| Kolumbien \| Schweden \| cooperation \| children \| gender differences \| experiment

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Series:	SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance ; 735
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	66347017X [GVK] hdl:10419/56376 [Handle]
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles ; J16 - Economics of Gender
Source:	EconStor

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