Teenage girls are egalitarian, and boys are generous

This paper examines how the social preferences of 2,500 girls and boys change throughout adolescence. We observe that at early ages (grade 7) girls are egalitarian, boys are generous, and the percentage of spiteful individuals is less than 10% (with equal presence of girls and boys). Across the adol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Brañas Garza, Pablo Ernesto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Loyola Andalucía
Repositorio:Brújula
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uloyola.es:20.500.12412/5182
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/5182
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Adolescents
Lab-in-field
Prosocial behavior
Developmental decision-making
Field experiment
Economic preferences
Teenagers
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Sumario:This paper examines how the social preferences of 2,500 girls and boys change throughout adolescence. We observe that at early ages (grade 7) girls are egalitarian, boys are generous, and the percentage of spiteful individuals is less than 10% (with equal presence of girls and boys). Across the adolescence we observe two clear phenomena: girls continue being egalitarian while boys are generous — however boys transition from being strongly generous to weakly generous.