Autori
Sutter, Matthias
Angerer, Silvia
Glatzle-Rutzler, Daniela
Lergetporer, Philipp

Titolo
Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: a study on altruism in primary school children
Periodico
European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 2014 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 23

We study with a sample of 1,070 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 to understand 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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