@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp9039, author={Angerer, Silvia and Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela and Lergetporer, Philipp and Sutter, Matthias}, title={Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City}, year={2015}, month={May}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={9039}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9039}, abstract={We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination.}, keywords={language;discrimination;cooperation;children;experiment}, }