Social Information, Advice and Altruistic Behaviour by Underprivileged Children: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
Speaker: Prof Sherry Li
Affiliation: University of Arkansas
Zoom: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/82603079317
Abstract: This paper presents a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate how parents’, teachers’, and peers’ behavior and advice affect children’s altruistic behavior in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Colombia. Elementary school children choose how much to help a child-in-need in a real-effort task before and after knowing about their parents’, teachers’, or peers’ decisions or their advice. We find that the effectiveness of the information on children’s sharing decisions varies by source and cost, but all advice positively influences children’s altruistic behavior regardless of the source being parents, teachers, or peers. Our findings shed light on how policymakers can effectively foster altruism in underprivileged children.
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