Peter Martinsson (), Katarina Nordblom (), Daniela Rützler and Matthias Sutter
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Peter Martinsson: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG
Katarina Nordblom: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG
Daniela Rützler: Department of Public Economics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Matthias Sutter: Department of Public Economics, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Postal: and, Department of Economics., School of Business, Economics and Law,
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: social preferences; children; adolescents; distributional experiment; Austria; Sweden.
14 pages, December 10, 2010
Note: Published in Economics Letters, 2011, Vol. 110, pp. 248-251
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