Arbeitspapier
The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
According to Chen’s (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement Chen’s approach with experimentally elicited time preference data from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when controlling for risk attitudes, IQ, family background, or when considering other languages.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5532
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡
- Thema
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intertemporal choice
language
children
experiment
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Sutter, Matthias
Angerer, Silvia
Rützler, Daniela
Lergetporer, Philipp
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Sutter, Matthias
- Angerer, Silvia
- Rützler, Daniela
- Lergetporer, Philipp
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2015
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