%0 Report
        %A Angerer, Silvia
%A Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela
%A Lergetporer, Philipp
%A Sutter, Matthias
        %T Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8020
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8020
        %X We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk tolerance and patience in intertemporal choice increase, in general, the level of donations, albeit the effects are non-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys. Having older brothers makes subjects less altruistic.
        %K altruism
%K donations
%K risk attitudes
%K intertemporal choices
%K experiment
%K children