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Discrimination at young age : experimental evidence from preschool children

Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2018

Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and...

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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …

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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...

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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices

Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

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Behavioral indifference curves

Komlos, John - 2014

According to the endowment effect there is some discomfort associated with giving up a good, that is to say, we are willing to give up something only if the price is greater than the price we are willing to pay for it. This implies that the indifference curves should designate a reference point...

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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2011

impatience are found to be significant predictors of health-related field behavior, saving decisions and conduct at school. In … attitudes are only weak predictors of field behavior. -- experiments with children and adolescents ; risk ; ambiguity ; time … preferences ; health status ; savings ; conduct at school ; external validity …

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021

We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest...

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find...

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The formation of risk preferences through small-scale events

Angerer, Silvia; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2021

Large, macroeconomic shocks in the past have been shown to influence economic decisions in the present. We study in an experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In line with a reinforcement learning model, we...

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021

Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...

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