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| Title: | | Effects of parental background on other-regarding preferences in children  |
| Authors: | | Bauer, Michal Chytilová, Julie Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6026 |
| Abstract: | | Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into other-regarding types, we find that children of less educated parents are less altruistic and more spiteful. This link is robust to controlling for a range of child, family, and peer 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. |
| Subjects: | | other-regarding preferences altruism spite experiments with children family background education |
| JEL: | | C91 D03 D64 I24 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201110263693 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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