Children's altruistic behavior in the dictator game

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Parental background and other-regarding preferences in children (2014, background): “Perhaps closest to our study, Benenson et al. (2007) find that children from impoverished neighborhoods in the United Kingdom are less likely to share in a dictator game as compared to children from richer neighborhoods, but the data do not allow them to test whether the difference in preferences…”
The ontogeny of human prosociality: behavioral experiments with children aged 3 to 8 (2012, background): “Similar age effects have been found in anonymous Dictator Games (Harbaugh et al., 2003; Benenson et al., 2007; Gummerum et al., 2009), although not all studies find significant effects of age on allocation decisions (Harbaugh & Krause, 2000; Takezawa et al.”
Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters (2013, background): “Previous literature on children and adolescents sometimes (Harbaugh et al. 2003; Gummerum et al. 2010) but not always (Benenson et al. 2007; Blake and Rand 2010; Almås et al. 2012; Eckel et al. 2011) finds that females are more altruistic.”
Currency value moderates equity preference among young children (2010, unknown): “Benenson et al. (2007), whose procedure most closely resembles ours, reports the average donation and the fraction of givers among 4-, 6-and 9-year olds.”