Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age: An experiment in Austria and Sweden

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.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Martinsson, Peter ; Nordblom, Katarina ; Rützler, Daniela ; Sutter, Matthias
Publisher:	Innsbruck : University of Innsbruck, Department of Public Finance
Subject:	Entscheidung \| Soziale Werte \| Soziales Verhalten \| Geschlecht \| Altersgruppe \| Test \| Kinder \| Jugendliche \| Österreich \| Schweden \| social preferences \| children \| adolescents \| distributional experiment \| Austria \| Sweden.

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Series:	Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; 2010-28
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	744756928 [GVK] hdl:10419/73484 [Handle] RePEc:inn:wpaper:2010-28 [RePEc]
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D64 - Altruism
Source:	EconStor

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