Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents

Andrea Guzmán (), Clara Villegas-Palacio () and Conny Wollbrant
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Andrea Guzmán: Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Medellin, Postal: Dept of Geosciences and Environment, Engineering Faculty, Colombia
Clara Villegas-Palacio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Medellin, Postal: Dept of Geosciences and Environment, Engineering Faculty, Colombia

No 564, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the average behavior of others or not. In a sample of 384 children aged 5-17, we find an increase in donations until the age of 13-14, but not beyond.We find no effect of social information on average donation behavior in any of the studied age-groups, but do find effects on the distributions of donations.

Keywords: Children; Charitable giving; Social information; Preference development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D02 D03 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2013-03-27, Revised 2014-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-evo, nep-exp and nep-soc
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