Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children

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We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; No. 2015-07

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual ; Field Experiments
• Subject: cooperation ; discrimination ; language ; children ; experiment

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Angerer, Silvia ; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela ; Lergetporer, Philipp ; Sutter, Matthias
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)
• (where): Innsbruck
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/122207
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET