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Young teens at play: Girls are egalitarian, boys are generous
Using the decisions of 2500 girls and boys in three mini dictator games, this paper investigates how the social preferences of five cohorts of students (aged 12 to 16) evolve throughout adolescence. We find that at early ages (12 years old, 7th grade), girls tend to be egalitarian, boys are more generous, and <10 % exhibit spiteful…
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SUSTAINWELL: Addressing the long-term socio-economic impact of population ageing on European society
New Horizon Europe project SUSTAINWELL addresses the medium and long-term impacts of ageing societies on income redistribution. It measures the roles of market, the government, and the family in providing wellbeing along the lifecycle, combining comparable European datasets and integrates this into a dynamic microsimulation projection. Population ageing is one of the main challenges that…