about risk, time-discounting and altruism in variations of two conditions: 'Quantitative First' and 'Qualitative First'. We … patience and altruism while using quantitative items first increases the cross-method correlation for risk and time preferences …

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 …

find that children’s decisions are particularly characterized by varying levels of altruism. We relate this heterogeneity … increased sample size. Finally, we use our method to analyze decisions made by dyads of children in an experimental setting. We … across children to age, gender, and the degree of friendship in dyads. …

We report a laboratory experiment that enables us to distinguish preferences for altruism (concerning tradeoffs between … preferences. We find that both social preferences and preferences for altruism are highly heterogeneous, ranging from utilitarian … to Rawlsian. In spite of this heterogeneity across subjects, there exists a strong positive within-subject correlation …