TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Detlefsen, Lena
AU  - Friedl, Andreas
AU  - Miranda, Katharina Lima de
AU  - Schmidt, Ulrich
AU  - Sutter, Matthias
        TI  - Are Economic Preferences Shaped by the Family Context? The Impact of Birth Order and Siblings' Sex Composition on Economic Preferences
        PY  - 2018/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11949
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11949
        AB  - The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings’ sex composition affect risk, time and social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting. However, siblings' sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking only with same-sex siblings. For trust and trustworthiness, birth order effects are larger with mixed-sex siblings than in the single-sex case. Only for patience, siblings’ sex composition does not matter.
        KW  - economic preferences
KW  - siblings' sex composition
KW  - birth order
KW  - experiment
        ER  -