a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more … allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group member, we can also study how parochialism develops with age. We find … prominent, with age. Women are more frequently classified as egalitarian than men, and less often as altruistic. Parochialism …

binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into other-regarding types, we find that children of less educated parents … characteristics, and is attenuated for smarter children. The results suggest that less educated parents are either less efficient to … instill social norms or their children less able to acquire them …

We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected …; and (iv) an age effect, with mature-aged people eliciting a higher degree of altruism …

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …