Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51855 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5530
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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