Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56376 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 735
Publisher: 
Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We compare how children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden cooperate in a Prisoner's Dilemma. We introduce a new measurement device for cooperation that can be easily understood by children. There is some evidence of more cooperation in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less cooperative than boys, whereas our results indicate the opposite in Sweden. Girls are in general more cooperative with boys than with girls. Relating cooperation to competitiveness, this appears to be task and country dependent.
Subjects: 
cooperation
children
gender differences
experiment
JEL: 
C91
D03
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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