The Development of Social Preferences
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Cobo Reyes Cano, Ramón; Dominguez, José J.; García Quero, Fernando José; Grosskopf, Brit; Lacomba Arias, Juan Antonio; Lagos García, Francisco Miguel; Liu, Tracy Xiao; Pearce, Graeme; Pearce, GraemeEditorial
Elsevier
Materia
Social preferences Children Mini-Dictator game Cross–country comparisons Artefactual field experiment
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2019-02-13Referencia bibliográfica
Published version: Cobo–Reyes, R., Dominguez, J. J., García–Quero, F., Grosskopf, B., Lacomba, J. A., Lagos, F., ... & Pearce, G. (2019). The development of social preferences. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.01.018]]
Resumen
This paper examines how social preferences develop with age. This is done using a range of mini-dictator games from which we classify 665 subjects into a variety of behavioural types. We expand on previous developmental studies of pro-sociality and parochialism by analysing individuals aged 9–67, and by employing a cross country study where participants from Spain interact with participants from different ethnic groups (Arab, East Asian, Black and White) belonging to different countries (Morocco, China, Senegal and Spain). We identify a ‘U-shaped’ relationship between age and egalitarianism that had previously gone unnoticed, and appeared linear. An inverse “U-shaped” relationship is found to be true for altruism. A gender differential is found to emerge in teenage years, with females becoming less altruistic but more egalitarian than males. In contrast to the majority of previous economic studies of the development of social preferences, we report evidence of increased altruism, and decreased egalitarianism and spite expressed towards black individuals from Senegal.