Helene Willadsen, University of Copenhagen, will give a presentation via Zoom in this week’s Social, Economic, and Decision Psychology research seminar (Thursday 11 March, 12:00-13:00).
Eliciting time, risk and social preferences in children: A validated survey
The paper* discussed presents a validated survey questionnaire for measuring time, risk and social preferences (altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity and trust) with children as young as 9 years old. The survey questions are validated against incentivized games measuring the same preference. We show that 1-4 survey questions can be used as a proxy for the experimentally elicited behavior with an explanatory power between 11% and 34.8%.
Supporting literature:
*Falk, A., Becker, A., Dohmen, T., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2016). The preference survey module: A validated instrument for measuring risk, time, and social preferences. IZA Discussion Papers No. 9674.
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