Universität zu Köln

Angerer, Silvia ORCID: 0000-0001-8107-2206, Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela ORCID: 0000-0002-6678-2418, Lergetporer, Philipp and Sutter, Matthias ORCID: 0000-0002-6143-8706 (2016). Cooperation and discrimination within and across language borders: Evidence from children in a bilingual city. Eur. Econ. Rev., 90. S. 254 - 265. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER. ISSN 1873-572X

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Abstract

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the affiliation to a specific language group affects behavior in a prisoner's dilemma game and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is considerable and develops with age. This gap is due to both in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. While the former is persistent across all age groups and both language groups and accounts for most of the discrimination observed, the latter only emerges in later years of primary school among children belonging to the German language group. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Angerer, Silvia UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8107-2206 UNSPECIFIED Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6678-2418 UNSPECIFIED Lergetporer, Philipp UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sutter, Matthias UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6143-8706 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-257714
DOI:	10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.02.022
Journal or Publication Title:	Eur. Econ. Rev.
Volume:	90
Page Range:	S. 254 - 265
Date:	2016
Publisher:	ELSEVIER
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1873-572X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Center of Excellence C-SEB
Subjects:	Economics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language IN-GROUP FAVORITISM; PUBLIC-GOODS; 3RD-PARTY PUNISHMENT; PAROCHIAL ALTRUISM; TIME-PREFERENCES; STEREOTYPES; EGALITARIANISM; PREJUDICE; CHILDHOOD Multiple languages Economics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/25771