| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP12288
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| DP12288 Altruism and strategic giving in children and adolescents |
| Isabelle Brocas; Juan Carrillo
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| 发表日期 | 2017-09-09
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| 出版年 | 2017
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate the evolution of altruism and
strategic giving from childhood to adulthood. 334 school-age children and adolescents
(from K to 12th grade) and 48 college students participated in a one-shot dictator game
and a repeated alternating version of the same dictator game. Each dictator game
featured the choice between a fair split (4; 4) and a selsh split (6; 1) between oneself
and an anonymous partner. We nd that altruism (fair split in the one-shot game)
increases with age in children and drops after adolescence, and cannot alone account for
the development of cooperation in the repeated game. Older subjects reciprocate more
and also better anticipate the potential gains of initiating a cooperative play. Overall,
children younger than 7 years of age are neither altruistic nor strategic while college
students strategically cooperate despite a relatively low level of altruism. Participants
in the intermediate age range gradually learn to anticipate the long term benets of
cooperation and to adapt their behavior to that of their partner. A turning point after
which cooperation can be sustained occurs at about 11-12 years of age. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Developmental decision-making
altruism
Strategic giving
Repeated games
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12288
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541099
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Isabelle Brocas,Juan Carrillo. DP12288 Altruism and strategic giving in children and adolescents. 2017.
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