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Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden

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  • Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas

    () (Universidad de los Andes)

  • Dreber, Anna Dreber

    () (Institute for Financial Research (SIFR))

  • von Essen, Emma

    () (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University)

  • Ranehill, Eva

    () (Stockholm School of Economics)

Abstract

This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the prisoner’s dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find some evidence that children cooperate more in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less cooperative than boys, whereas our results indicate the opposite gender gap in Sweden. On average, children are more cooperative with boys than with girls.

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Paper provided by Stockholm University, Department of Economics in its series Research Papers in Economics with number 2011:15.

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Length: 10 pages
Date of creation: 11 Apr 2011
Date of revision: 12 Jun 2012
Handle: RePEc:hhs:sunrpe:2011_0015

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Keywords: Cooperation; children; gender differences; experiment;

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  1. Dreber, Anna & von Essen, Emma & Ranehill, Eva, 2009. "Outrunning the Gender Gap – Boys and Girls Compete Equally," SIFR Research Report Series 69, Institute for Financial Research.
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  1. Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo & Dreber, Anna & von Essen, Emma & Ranehill, Eva, 2010. "Gender differences in competitiveness and risk taking: comparing children in Colombia and Sweden," Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 730, Stockholm School of Economics, revised 03 Jun 2011.
  2. Kirsten Häger & Bastiaan Oud & Daniel Schunk, 2012. "Egalitarian Envy: Cross-cultural Variation in the Development of Envy in Children," Jena Economic Research Papers 2012-059, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics.

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