Cooperation and Discrimination within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City

By S. Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter. Social Science Research Network, 2016

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We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior 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 increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination.

Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
2. C. Zoller
3. Matthias Sutter
4. Stefan T. Trautmann

In Safety Research

1. Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
2. C. Zoller
3. Matthias Sutter
4. Martin G. Kocher
5. Stefan T. Trautmann
6. Roman M. Sheremeta

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Matthias Sutter
2. Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
3. Martin G. Kocher

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