Eliciting time, risk and social preferences in children: A validated survey

Helene Willadsen

Abstract

This paper 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%.

Paper

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. Working Paper.

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