TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Angerer, Silvia
AU  - Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela
AU  - Lergetporer, Philipp
AU  - Sutter, Matthias
        TI  - Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
        PY  - 2014/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8020
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8020
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - altruism
KW  - donations
KW  - risk attitudes
KW  - intertemporal choices
KW  - experiment
KW  - children
        ER  -