Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7243178 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 2015 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
We study in a sample of 1070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk tolerance and patience in intertemporal choice increase, in general, the level of donations, albeit the effects are non-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys. Having older brothers makes subjects less altruistic.
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Authors
Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter,