TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bauer, Michal
AU  - Chytilová, Julie
AU  - Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara
        TI  - Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children
        PY  - 2011/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6026
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6026
        AB  - Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into other-regarding types, we find that children of less educated parents are less altruistic and more spiteful. This link is robust to controlling for a range of child, family, and peer characteristics, and is attenuated for smarter children. The results suggest that less educated parents are either less efficient to instill social norms or their children less able to acquire them.
        KW  - family background
KW  - education
KW  - experiments with children
KW  - spite
KW  - altruism
KW  - other-regarding preferences
        ER  -