Egalitarianism in young children

By Ernst Fehr, Helen Bernhard, Bettina Rockenbach. Nature, 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The ontogeny of human prosociality: behavioral experiments with children aged 3 to 8 (2012, methodology): “…indicate that children become more prosocial with age (Harbaugh, Krause, & Liday, 2003; Takezawa, Gummerum, & Keller, 2006; Benenson et al., 2007; Fehr et al., 2008; Brownell et al., 2009; Gummerum, Hanoch, Keller, Parsons, & Hummel, 2009; Blake & Rand, 2010), and all suggest that children…”
What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods (2013, background): “(2007) o r Fehr et al. (2008) for experimental evidence that in-group effects affect behavior in distributive tasks and i n cooperation and coordination games.”
Parental background and other-regarding preferences in children (2014, methodology): “The existing literature finds older children to take the welfare of others more into account (Fehr et al., 2008; Harbaugh et al., 2003) and this result is confirmed by our data, too.”
“Who is worthy of my generosity?” Recipient characteristics and the development of children’s sharing (2016, positive): “These findings, viewed within the emerging body of research examining developmental change in sharing, indicate a strong, and perhaps universal, trend towards an increased inequality aversion and the prioritization of equality and others’ interests by middle childhood (Blake & McAuliffe, 2011; Fehr ”
When Getting Something Good is Bad: Even Three-year-olds React to Inequality (2011, positive): “In three different 'treatments', Fehr, Bernhard, and Rockenbach (2008) asked three-to eight-year-old Swiss children to allocate candy to themselves and an anonymous partner.”
The development of contingent reciprocity in children (2013, positive): “The experimental materials were based on Fehr et al. (2008).”
Currency value moderates equity preference among young children (2010, positive): “For example, norms for appropriate behavior are strongly affected by the group membership of one's interaction partner among both children and adults, with people preferentially cooperating with in-group members (Fehr et al., 2008; Tajfel et al., 1971; Yamagishi et al., 1999).”