Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46405 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3361
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group member, we can also study how parochialism develops with age. We find a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more prominent, with age. Women are more frequently classified as egalitarian than men, and less often as altruistic. Parochialism first becomes significant in the teenage years.
Subjects: 
other-regarding preferences
egalitarianism
altruism
spite
parochialism
experiments with children and adolescents
JEL: 
C91
D03
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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