Gender differences in discrimination emerge early in life: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city

Angerer, Silvia; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp and Sutter, Matthias (2017): Gender differences in discrimination emerge early in life: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city. In: Economics Letters, Vol. 152: pp. 15-18

Abstract

We report the decisions of 824 young children who allocated a fixed endowment between two other children where only one spoke the same language as the decision maker. We show that boys are more likely to discriminate against the out-group.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Economics
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• ISSN: 0165-1765
• Language: English