@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5049, author={Czermak, Simon and Feri, Francesco and Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela and Sutter, Matthias}, title={Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents: Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games}, year={2010}, month={Jul}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={5049}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5049}, abstract={We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy and equilibrium payoffs are not too unequal. Using a mixture model we can estimate for each subject the probability to be any of eight different strategic and non-strategic types. The econometric estimation reveals that older subjects are more likely to eliminate dominated strategies, and that subjects with good math grades are more strategic.}, keywords={strategic thinking;beliefs;experiment;age;adolescents}, }