Parents' Education and their Adult Offspring's Other-Regarding Behavior
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Parents' Education and their Adult Offspring's Other-Regarding Behavior. / Nielsen, Ulrik Haagen.
Kbh. : Økonomisk institut, Københavns Universitet, 2014.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Parents' Education and their Adult Offspring's Other-Regarding Behavior
AU - Nielsen, Ulrik Haagen
N1 - JEL Classification: C91, D63, D64
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Does socioeconomic background when measured by parental educational attainment explain the heterogeneity in adults' other-regarding preferences? I test this by using data from two online experiments -- a Dictator Game and a Trust Game that were conducted with a broad sample of the Danish adult population. I match the experimental data with high-quality data from the Danish population registers about my subjects and their parents. Whereas previous studies have found socioeconomic status, including parental educational attainment, to be predictive for children's generosity, I find no such evidence among adults.This result is robust across age groups and genders. I provide two explanations for this. First, sociodemographic characteristics in general appear to be poor predictors of adults' other-regarding behavior. Second, by using Danish survey data, I find that Danish parents' educational attainment appears to be uncorrelated with how important they find it to teach their children to "think of others". More speculative explanations are also provided.
AB - Does socioeconomic background when measured by parental educational attainment explain the heterogeneity in adults' other-regarding preferences? I test this by using data from two online experiments -- a Dictator Game and a Trust Game that were conducted with a broad sample of the Danish adult population. I match the experimental data with high-quality data from the Danish population registers about my subjects and their parents. Whereas previous studies have found socioeconomic status, including parental educational attainment, to be predictive for children's generosity, I find no such evidence among adults.This result is robust across age groups and genders. I provide two explanations for this. First, sociodemographic characteristics in general appear to be poor predictors of adults' other-regarding behavior. Second, by using Danish survey data, I find that Danish parents' educational attainment appears to be uncorrelated with how important they find it to teach their children to "think of others". More speculative explanations are also provided.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Dictator game
KW - Trust Game
KW - Generosity
KW - Other-Regarding Preferences
KW - Parental Education
KW - Socioeconomic Status
M3 - Working paper
T3 - University of Copenhagen. Institute of Economics. Discussion Papers (Online)
BT - Parents' Education and their Adult Offspring's Other-Regarding Behavior
PB - Økonomisk institut, Københavns Universitet
CY - Kbh.
ER -
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