幼儿竞争意愿与分配偏好:中国学童的实验研究

IF 1.8 4区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Ming Dai , Chi Cui , Tianming Ren , Liu Liu
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摘要

本文以197名9 ~ 12岁的中国儿童为研究对象,对分配偏好与竞争意愿之间的关系进行了实证研究。通过实际努力任务诱导竞争性选择和改进的独裁者博弈来估计自私-公平和效率-平等的权衡,我们发现具有强烈公平焦点的儿童更有可能选择竞争性方案。效率导向与竞争选择正相关,且受性别调节。我们的发现为经济相关偏好的早期出现提供了新的证据。
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Willingness to compete and distributional preferences at early ages: an experimental study of Chinese schoolchildren
We conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment to examine the relationship between distributional preferences and willingness to compete with 197 Chinese children aged from 9 to 12 years old. Using a real-effort task to elicit competitive choice and a modified dictator game to estimate selfishness-fairness and efficiency-equality tradeoffs via a CES utility framework, we find that children with a strong fairness focus are significantly more likely to choose competitive schemes. Efficiency orientation is positively associated with the competitive choice, and this relationship is moderated by gender. Our findings provide novel evidence on the early emergence of economically relevant preferences.
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Economics Letters
Economics Letters ECONOMICS-
CiteScore
3.20
自引率
5.00%
发文量
348
审稿时长
30 days
期刊介绍: Many economists today are concerned by the proliferation of journals and the concomitant labyrinth of research to be conquered in order to reach the specific information they require. To combat this tendency, Economics Letters has been conceived and designed outside the realm of the traditional economics journal. As a Letters Journal, it consists of concise communications (letters) that provide a means of rapid and efficient dissemination of new results, models and methods in all fields of economic research.
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