Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

Working Papers in Economics,
University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

No 474: Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden

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.

JEL-codes: C91; D63; D64

14 pages, December 10, 2010

Note: Published in Economics Letters, 2011, Vol. 110, pp. 248-251

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