Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers in Economics,
University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics
No 564: Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents
Andrea Guzmán (), Clara Villegas-Palacio () and Conny Wollbrant ()
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Andrea Guzmán: Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Medellin, Postal: Dept of Geosciences and Environment, Engineering Faculty, Colombia
Clara Villegas-Palacio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Medellin, Postal: Dept of Geosciences and Environment, Engineering Faculty, Colombia
Conny Wollbrant: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: P.O. Box 640, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract: A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the average behavior of others or not. In a sample of 384 children aged 5-17, we find an increase in donations until the age of 13-14, but not beyond.We find no effect of social information on average donation behavior in any of the studied age-groups, but do find effects on the distributions of donations.
Keywords: Children; Charitable giving; Social information; Preference development
20 pages, First version: March 27, 2013. Revised: November 2014. Earlier revisions: January 14, 2014.
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